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アメリカガラス Mon Sep 21 15:09:08 2015 No.7144161 [Reply] [Original]

Now that 4chan has officially become a Japanese website lets have a thread to talk about the greatest writers from that country.

>>	アメリカガラス Mon Sep 21 15:10:14 2015 No.7144167 File: 88 KB, 500x614, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gunna raise the bar high right off the bat. Who here likes Yukio?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 15:11:50 2015 No.7144175 File: 83 KB, 710x473, 2343253252352.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Akira Toriyama is a god

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 15:12:56 2015 No.7144180 File: 58 KB, 554x599, Nishimurahiroyuki.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What do you think of the new moot guys?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 15:14:11 2015 No.7144186 >>7144161 It's a sign of the times, america leaves his place to Asia.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 15:18:25 2015 No.7144200 >>7144186 is the 90s again

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 15:49:45 2015 No.7144311 File: 33 KB, 397x375, 45.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Japanese writers have like a 50/50 suicide rate

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 16:25:06 2015 No.7144443 File: 162 KB, 409x545, 1434647823828.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7144200 let m00t enjoy his holidays

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:30:23 2015 No.7144672

I haven't read anything from any Japanese writers besides some perfectly crafted flash narratives by Kawabata which still linger in my memory.

A few days ago I decided to go ahead and try something by Kobo Abe, any thoughts on him? I picked The Ruined Map, having read a little bit over a quarter of it, I can't say I'm particularly interested or impressed as I thought I would be, does it pick up afterwards?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:35:36 2015 No.7144688 >>7144672 haven't read anything from Abe other than Woman in the Dunes but I really enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:41:29 2015 No.7144702 >>7144167 meme author

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:42:36 2015 No.7144707 >>7144175 Fuckin Weeaboos.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 17:59:41 2015 No.7144763 haruki murakami is pretty fun. Who here read 1q84? I

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 18:35:32 2015 No.7144897 >>7144186 Le ebin asia rising maymay

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 18:36:50 2015 No.7144904 >>7144763 too long for me, is there a better starting place?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 18:42:53 2015 No.7144930 Tomino

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 18:56:42 2015 No.7144975 >>7144930 Did he write anything at all?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 19:15:22 2015 No.7145048 File: 684 KB, 678x846, Stop Breastfeeding in Public.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7144161 文学ボードは政治じゃないです。たわごとのポストと日本語のミームは文学じゃないです。OPはばかだと思います

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 21:26:55 2015 No.7145498 >>7144672 What's the first name of this Kawabata person?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 21:29:11 2015 No.7145505 >>7144161 mishima. lady murasaki. >>7145498 yasunari

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 21:30:44 2015 No.7145510
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>>7144161
Much as I like Mishima "Please cut my head off correctly" Yukio, pic related is the best Japanese novel I have ever read.

Murakami's non-fiction about the subway gas attacks was also good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 21:31:44 2015 No.7145512 >>7145505 >>7145510 Kawabata Mind

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 21:34:10 2015 No.7145521

What is the best in Japanese Genre-Fiction in translation? Does it exist? Would love to read The Tolkein/Orson Scott Card/Herbert of Japan

Whenever I read postwar jap lit it is always some angsty Kafka on the shore shit, or balls to walls crazy like Mishima

Anonymous Mon Sep 21 22:28:47 2015 No.7145699

>>7145521
The classic Japanese pop fiction authors are probably Kenji Miyazawa and Edogawa Rampo, but they aren't really anything like the authors you mention, as Miyazawa mostly wrote children's fantasy and Rampo mystery novels.

If you want epic fantasy, a couple popular series are Guin Saga and The Twelve Kingdoms, while if you're interested in space dramas, some popular ones are Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Crest of the Stars.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 02:09:41 2015 No.7146238 i like Haruki Murakami

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 02:20:04 2015 No.7146256 >>7144672 Kobo Abe is amazing. People better be reading Kobo Abe in here. Kenzaburo Oe and Banana Yoshimoto are ok too

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 02:21:05 2015 No.7146257 >>7146256 Ryonosuke Akutagawa

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 02:23:11 2015 No.7146261 File: 24 KB, 275x400, 14287.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Nothing bad is going to happen to 4chans r-right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 02:29:10 2015 No.7146275 >>7146261 nah, mostly just the censorship laws for the pornography boards but us at /lit/ will be fine

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 02:33:10 2015 No.7146279 >>7146261 I'm hoping Hirohito-kun is going to listen to the staff to get a good enough vibe of 4chans culture and attitude, but all in all it's unlikely he'll go full retard. So we'll be fine. Probably.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 03:49:23 2015 No.7146430 >>7144180 way cuter than old moot

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 22 10:33:18 2015 No.7147059 >>7144897 have you lost touch with the world? go to detroit

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