Japanese Lit

[Anonymous No.17319292]

Why is it so bad?

[Anonymous No.17319326]

>>17319292
Why are you such an incel chud?

[Anonymous No.17319331]

>>17319292
You should try reading something else than manga

[Anonymous No.17319356]

>>17319292
It isn't.

[Anonymous No.17319376]

It's smutty and degenerate with a sense of cultural death looking at every corner

[Anonymous No.17319422]

>>17319356
Who are the really great Japanese authors? I'm not very familiar with that countries output, but the ones I am familiar with rank among the worst literature I've ever read. (Mishima, Dazai, Kawabata, Haruki Murakami.)

[Anonymous No.17319428]

>>17319422

[Anonymous No.17319430]

Because you don't speak Japanese.

[Anonymous No.17319438]

>>17319430
I think it may be this. Many classics like Dazai and Mishima left me very disappointed, leaving me to conclude that much must have been lost in translation

[Anonymous No.17319451]

>>17319292
>Why is it so bad?
It's made for people with a cultural perspective you can only catch a glimpse of being non-Japanese.

[Anonymous No.17319588]

>>17319422
Ryu Murakami writes some good stuff

[Anonymous No.17320291]

>>17319422
The Woman in The Dunes and these

>>17319428
>>17319588

[Anonymous No.17321182]

>>17319588
Came here to post this. Ryu is based.

[Blarty Hongo !WegkZP4tiw No.17321192]

>>17319292
Read this.

[Anonymous No.17321414]

>>17319430
Is Japanese literature more prone to translation decay than literature from other genres?

[Anonymous No.17321424]

>>17321414
>genres
languages I mean.

[Anonymous No.17321718]

>>17319376
No. That’s 21st Century American lit.

[Anonymous No.17321728]

>>17319422
>NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST WRITE BOOKS AFTER THE YEAR 1900
Okay fag, you're probably too much of a brainlet to handle The Tale of Genji, so try The Tale of the Heike (haha samurai sword go swish), Tales of Moonlight and Rain, and Narrow Road to the Deep North.

[Anonymous No.17321926]

they are very good at visual art however

[Anonymous No.17322015]

Read Zeami