/lit/ - Literature

>>7143335
I this guy going to sell all of my shitposts to the NSA?

Literally who?

Hard Mode: No discussion of Yukio Mishima, Osamu Dazai, Haruki Murakami, or Kobo Abe.

This place might have been salvageable if he sold it 5 years ago but it's too late now

>>7143353
related
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>>7143357
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>>7143353

NSA are already tracking our shitposts :^)

>>7143357

He made 2channel, the template for 4chan

>>7143335
>Japanese 'literature'

lol. manga doesn't count. fuck off back to /a/

>>7143362
That sounds even worse than moot

He will probably appoint an American admin.
He just owns the website and barely knows English.
The reason he owns it is for the pass and Advertisements money.

>>7143362

>>7143357
yasunari
akutagawa
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murakami (ryu)

>>7143335
This man, is he going to be something in my country?

>>7143361
4chan is an extremely popular website and probably as popular as it's going to be while maintaining its format and type of content, so I'm not sure what you want from it. If you're just mad about newfags from reddit or whatever, then fuck off

>"hard mode"
>no soseki

Lel

Also

>Endo
>Inoue
>Tanizaki

>>7143461
No ones mad and there is no reason to be when it's too late.

>>7143477
>Endo
>absolute bliss in form of a novel

>>7143433
please keep coming on /lit/ ye guy

Watch out for Hiroyuki Nishimura!
Watch out for Hiroyuki Nishimura!

>>7143362
Where's the evidence? I welcome our new eastern leader; hopefully he'll delete /pol/ and make [s4s] users the new mods.

Can anyone point me to any good writing on the economic models of various Japanese print media?
I'm particularly interested in how much money a light novel will make as opposed to a more literary work and if these words are appropriate in a Japanese context.

Tanizaki is without a doubt the greatest japanese novelist that ever lived and pic related is his magnum opus and the most important modern japanese novel. Anyone who disagrees with this has either i) not enough knowledge of japanese history, culture and society ii) not enough familiarity with japanese literature, specially modern literature

>>7143481
>>7143613
Will read.

>>7143568
>deleting pol
Why would you rip up a trash bag, and send trash flying everywhere?

>>7143629
Because the specially selected {s4s} mods will destroy any remembrance of their culture and traditions. They will be purged.

>>7143613
Where do you place Soseki and Kokoro on the scale of important modern Japanese literature relative to Tanizaki and The Makioka Sisters?

>>7143613
Where do you place Soseki and Kokoro on the scale of important modern Japanese literature relative to Tanizaki and The Makioka Sisters?

>>7143613
>not enough knowledge of japanese history, culture and society
nah all you need to really enjoy Makioka Sisters is an appreciation for femdom

>>7143781
whoops I was thinking of Naomi by him actually

Currently reading Dance Dance Dance.

It's k.

>>7143801
favorite murakami book :-)

>>7143854
>Not After Dark

fucking plebs.

>>7143862
after dark was the first of his I read. Probably the best stylistically, dance x3 is just extra comfy to me since I read it over multiple plane flights during Christmas time

>>7143357
What about Kazuo Ishiguro? Or does he not count, since he grew up in England?

>>7143878
Ishuguro is a British author writing in English and his works set in Japan were 1. His first two and 2. Not at all based on any real Japan.

I'm aware we're not pol but he's obviously up for data mining

So more of the same

i'm gonna ask him the trolley dilemma for his qa

>>7143582
a shit ton

Bump because some dipshit made this exact same thread without checking the catalog

>>7143481
Silence was a interesting read. Though I did think that the comparisons of Rodriguez and Christ were a little heavy-handed. And that the diary of the merchant at the end added little to nothing to the story.

How comes I never see Kenzaburo Oe in these threads?

If you guys love Mishima or Dazai so much, you would cum buckets from Silent Cry.

>>7143908
Where do I start with him? What's his best book?

>>7143438
Thoroughly enjoyed Akutagawa's Rashomon and other short stories.

>>7144886

Seconding this recommendation. Absolutely incredible book, but feels for days.

>>7143357

OK, has anyone read The Tale of Genji? And why where Japan and China writing thousand page novels when Europe was more focused on plays?

>guy in Moot's predecessor.
>dude looks like 20 if that
>Moot looks like a 40 year old failed trans case.

Asian aging genetics are god tier.

>>7144956
Moot's kind of a sexy twink IMO

nice try, moot

>>7144886
I didn't care for The Changeling that much, but I'm interested in reading The beautiful annabell lee was chilled and killed, though it's not available in English. I might pick it up in Chinese.

>>7144889

Unconsoled > Remains of the Day > Buried Giant/Never Let me Go > Good Nocturnes > When We Were Orphans > Bad Nocturnes

start with either Never Let Me Go or Remains of the Day, then read the other, then decide if you want to read The Unconsoled.

The Unconsoled is a slightly difficult read, not recommended to start with.

>>7145363
Never Let Me Go was awful. Please don't reccomend that garbage.

Remaings of the Day was good.

>>7145380
I liked it. It's flawed but I think it has its merits and is a good representation of Ishiguro.

>>7145363
No artist of the floating world? One of my favorite books.

>>7145514
I haven't read his first two books.

So has Jun Tsuji's Death of an Epicurean been translated yet? I'm really curious but not enough to learn nip.

>>7143629
i think this is bullshit
it would cause a shitstorm for at most a month, then this
>>7143635