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Japs Anonymous Mon May 13 18:13:03 2013 No.3754977 [Reply] [Original]

I've been looking into reading more Japanese authors. I've read a couple of works by Murakami, but they get pretty boring and formulaic once you've read anything else by him (japanese youth who likes radiohead and is sensitive is transported into a post modern surrealist fairytale land of cats, etc.) Who all can you recommend me that isn't quite as boring as Murakami? For reference, some of my favorite authors are Kundera, Thomas Mann, and Sartre.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:16:04 2013 No.3754983 >>3754977 Oh, you'll love Penisuki Suckmoto.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:17:03 2013 No.3754990 File: 53 KB, 500x421, 1-tao-lin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mishima Kawabata

Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin !!F0NmhMzgmhE Mon May 13 18:18:03 2013 No.3754991

I'm afraid that you may very well be out of luck. Japanese literature reads in a strange way, and will initially seem very dry and boring to those used to western literature. I could never get used to it myself. However, if you must read Japanese literature, I Am a Cat comes highly recommended. It is a book concerning a housecat's musings on humanity. It is simple and dry, but very relaxing to read, which is more or less the ideal form of Japanese literature.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:25:03 2013 No.3755019 Kenzaburo Oe is my current favorite. I recommend a Personal Matter, but I do love his short stories, as well. Quite a bit of his work is a personal working out of his own situation and I find the different angles within the stories riveting

Anonymous Mon May 13 18:26:03 2013 No.3755026

Murakami is pretty much unanimously despised the everyone else in the Jap lit scene as writing to appeal to Westerners.

Along with >>3754990 read Natsume Soseki, Osamu Daizu, Ryu Murakami, Oe Kenzaburo, Yasunari Kawabata, Yoko Ogawa, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

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>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:27:03 2013 No.3755031 >>3755026 by* everyone

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:28:03 2013 No.3755035 >>3755028 bretty accurate.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:29:04 2013 No.3755043 >>3755028 There should be a slice for Cocks. At least 7%.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:33:03 2013 No.3755064 >>3755043 Replace "cocks" with "penises" there are never ANY euphemisms when Murakami writes sex scenes. "She put my penis in my mouth, then I put my penis into her vagina afterwards"

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:33:03 2013 No.3755067 >>3755026 Really? I've only heard any unamious hatred towards Murakami on /lit/. People love his short stories and older works but his more recent novels are in need of a stricter editor.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:36:03 2013 No.3755079 >>3755064 He uses penis in the sex scenes, but outside of them, it's always cock. "I looked down at my cock." "I stroked my cock." "Mashima saw my cock." "You have a nice cock", Mashima said At least in my version.

>>	Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin !!F0NmhMzgmhE Mon May 13 18:40:04 2013 No.3755102 >>3755079 Translations vary. Again, much of this is due to the fact that Japanese is a dry language. It simply lacks euphemisms as we know them.

Anonymous Mon May 13 18:42:03 2013 No.3755113
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>>3755067
In general, it seems to be agreed by most that 1Q84 is pretty bad, the rest of it a lot more debated. Wind-up bird chronicle is kinda well liked since I last checked, but maybe I just came upon a rare pocket of admirers.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:44:03 2013 No.3755130 >>3755067 He's decried by most Jap writers and critics for being un-Japanese in content and style. He does have wide appeal amongst the public though. 20something American girls love him.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 18:47:03 2013 No.3755149 Kobo Abe, particularly The Face of Another

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 19:03:03 2013 No.3755194 File: 2.84 MB, 1900x4194, 1276577235824.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] there's a whole Japanese lit section on the wiki

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 19:10:03 2013 No.3755221 Why da fuck wud u wanna read gook books after they destroyed pearl harbor?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 19:29:04 2013 No.3755279 File: 238 KB, 1066x800, 637365_orig.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] so what about the freshly translated Ryu Murakami book? top left corner on pic related, From the Fatherland with Love

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 19:40:03 2013 No.3755299 Why hasn't anyone mentioned Osamu Dazai yet? You guys are fucking up.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 13 19:50:04 2013 No.3755324 >>3755299 see >>3755026

>>	Anonymous Tue May 14 01:24:03 2013 No.3756252 File: 56 KB, 324x500, abe-woman-in-the-dunes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just started The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (after mentioning it here on another thread) and I'm loving it so far.

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