/lit/ - Literature

>>16856291
Kobo Abe is quite good. Start where you want.

>>16856291
what's the anime called where the girls read snow country on the train?

the superior murakami

>>16856291
Kenji Miyazawa?

>>16856291
Yes. Which is why there's at least 1 or 2 rec charts, you-should've-lurked-more dumbass, as well as download links for them
>tinyurl com japaneselit
>http://www.mediafire.com/file/efeuu6rrv8cdrjd/Japanese_lit_v10.zip

>>16856320
You stole my one recommendation. So I'll be more specific and say start with The Woman In The Dunes and then watch the movie because both are great. (Hako-Otoko is his best though imo)

Read Tanizaki. Pic related is often overlooked but it's my favourite in just how fucked up the premise is and in how the narrative is worked through the journal form.

>>16857461
> rec charts
> not /lit/ basics

Are Light novels seen as a joke in japan?

>>16858606
what?

>>16857489
>Read Tanizaki
this. he was based as fuck

Natsuo Kirino is great. Really liked Grotesque.

>>16856291
How can you read Japanese literature if you can't speak Japanese?

>>16856291
Dazai is the author nips all coom over

I've been meaning to read Life for Sale for a while. Is there a particular translation or edition to get?

>>16856621
Ryu Murakami's protagonists are too chad for lit. Lit prefer the quiet and shy protagonists, namedropping of authors, and mommy issues

>>16856291
I dislike japanese literature, it's not for me. However I like Edogawa Ranpo.

>>16856339
Miss Bernard Said?

The guy who wrote kokoro

>>16856291
Tale of Genji
Tale of the Heike
The Pillow Book

>>16858890
Reading is unrelated to speaking. I can't speak English for the life of me but understand you fuckers out there just fine.

>>16858695
Most yes, but not all. It's because they are writing by a mature writers with little to no experience. however it's not uncommon to see someone on the train reading on their phone or bunko book.

>>16856291
Yes. There's Soseki, Dazai and Kawabata who are all very good. Also my boi Ryunosuke Akutagawa is probably the closest you can get to perfection in the short story format - possibly one of my favorite japanese writers.

I really wish Dazai wrote more. He was so talented

Help me /lit/, I'm looking for a specific japanese novel (or novella?). It was about some type of intruder who kind of forced his way into a japanese household, and the family is looking for a way to get rid of him or something along those lines. Does anyone remember the name?

>>16858890
I do know Japanese

>>16856621
I remember only shity, bland, prose.

>>16858695
I don’t think so. I’ve seen adult men in their 30s and 40s reading LNs and Manga on the train. I personally tried reading them but found the writing to be a grade below what you’d find in normal YA fiction so I just couldn’t continue. I realize they’re for the same audience of mostly 17 to 30 year olds but they’re written at like an 8th grade reading level.

>>16857489
>Tanizaki
Yes. Especially the history of Musashi

>>16861531
Kurai tokoro de machiawase by Otsuichi ?

Assuming you're pretty ok at reading nipponese, but not a complete moonrune scholar, what author would be a good starting point? Haven't read actual literature in nip yet.

>>16862146
Miyamoto Teru's 'Kinshuu' (錦繍) or Murakami's "ねじまき鳥クロニクル"
Or some light novels like "月光", Haruhi, Zeroth Maria, etc.

>>16856621
I dropped it after the first few sentences fucking hell

>>16858738
Good to see NLH there, but no Battle Royale? :(

>>16861940
that's not it unfortunately.