/lit/ - Literature

>>22774631

>>21968557
Yes, i will post charts and recommendations of my own
General Japanese chart first

Buy as many of these as you can

>>21656683
Pic related is a good chart
Id say snow country by yasunari Kawabata is a good place to start as well
Kawabata and mishima were close friends

>>21482273
Heres one chart

>>21478892

>>19070722
This was what originally got me into niplit. Even after reading most of pic related it still holds up. I have mixed feelings about the ending, and translations are never 100% the same, but otherwise it's great.

>>18977110

>>17520249

>>17494362
Akutagawa and Shiga Naoya were Soseki's disciples for a short while before he died. They're both pretty good. A Dark Night's Passing reads like a Soseki novel quite a lot. The non historical Akutagawa (Gears, A Fool's Life) are harrowing stories about mental illness and suicide (the latter one is actually his suicide note).
Dazai is alright.
Kawabata for subtle Jap stuff that doesn't try to dissect any character's psychology (more show rather than tell). Snow Country or The Sound of the Mountain are good starting points, though his short stories (Izu Dancer, Palm of the hand stories) are good as well.

For modern stuff, Shusaku Endo does something like Soseki with religious (Catholic), from a more modern literary approach, with some very decent historical fiction of sorts (The Samurai, Silence).
Tanizaki excels at writing about kinks. Domination (Naomi), weird love triangles (Quicksand), fetishes (his short stories).
Abe is PoMo, everything he wrote was very weird (start with Woman in the Dunes, or The Face of Another).
Mishima wrote a bunch of extremist bullshit but he's alright. It's more philosophical, like a Jap Herman Hesse obsessed with aesthetics.
Oe is mostly known for guilt and family matters (A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry).
Haruki Murakami is a page turner. It all reads the same so I never cared for him. The other Ryu Murakami tends to write edgy weird shit (read Coin Locker Babies or Piercing).
For comfiness, you can't go wrong with Hiromi Kawakami (The Briefcase, Strange Weather in Tokyo).

Here's a bunch of good quality ebooks for most translated authors
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/efeuu6rrv8cdrjd/Japanese_lit_v10.zip

>>17260512
Oe's great, but my personal favorite is Kawabata. Snow Country is incredible.

Honestly I get this kind of cozy feeling from most late 19th/early 20th century nip literature. Soseki, Ogai, Tanizaki, etc. Kawabata has some credibility because of the Nobel prize (rightfully deserved) but there are a ton of great authors from that era and it's a shame only a handful have been fully translated.

Stylistically most of those authors were raised in the Western tradition brought on through the Meiji Restoration, but they twist it through the lens of their own traditions/values which makes it read very much like a western novel but from a radically different perspective. At that time most of Japan was very underdeveloped compared to America/Europe, so most novels will have some degree of going off to the country which comes with it's own poetry and relaxing timbre that I consider comfy.

>>10537467
As an aside, the Discord talks about anime 10 times more than they talk about literature and philosophy.

>>9776711
>>9776727
It's postmodernism, perhaps it's for the best

>>9776698
Good list, here's another. I'd argue Norweigan Wood should be replaced with Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the poetry of Murasaki Shikibu and Onono Komachi should still be included for the classical era. Whether you think it translates poorly or not (it doesn't) their poetry is an important part of that culture.

>>9778148
The Tales of Ise and the Tale of the Heike are what you're looking for as a small starting point. The latter is often referred to as the Japanese Iliad.

>>8162157
Here's one. Any Scandinavian, anyone?

>>7810597

Hey OP, you asked for some asian lit, I highly recommend you read everything Mishima wrote.

Most everything in this list is fantastic too, and I think the english translations are high quality though unfortunately some subtleties are lost.