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Oriental Lit Anonymous Mon Sep 12 07:04:24 2016 No.8499759 [Reply] [Original]

Looking for some Japanese literature recommendations.
Already read most of Mishima and Murakami's work, thinking about perhaps getting into Kenzaburo Oe.
Otherwise just any general oriental recommendations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 09:38:47 2016 No.8500017 Soseki and Tanizaki

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 09:53:25 2016 No.8500050 Ogawa, Izumi Kyouka (dunno if he's translated)

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 09:53:33 2016 No.8500051

>>8499759
Soseki - Read him if you like muh individualism, social anxiety, and isolation in an industrializing world. Recommended reads are I Am a Cat, Kokoro, and if you're really interested the two thematic trilogies (of which Kokoro is a part of the late trilogy)

Dazai - Read him if you like muh suffering, muh loneliness. Recommended are The Setting Sun and No Longer Human.

Kawabata - Read him if you like muh aesthetics, beauty, and somberness at the changing of eras. Recommended reading is Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and The Old Capital

Tanizaki - Read him if you're lewd and enjoy muh nostalgia for the past. Recommended reads include The Makioka Sisters, The Diary of a Mad Old Man, and if you want to see what the opposite of a weeaboo looks like, Naomi.

Endo - Read him if you like muh Japanese Catholicism and persecution. Recommended reads are The Silence and candal

Abe - Read him if you want a lesser version of Kafka and muh social anxiety in the postmodern era. Recommended reads are Face of Another, Woman in the Dunes, and The Ruined Map

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 09:56:46 2016 No.8500054 >>8500051 Oh and read Oe if you like autism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:19:10 2016 No.8500107 >>8500054 Honosexuality*

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:22:16 2016 No.8500112 >>8500051 >>8500017 thanks for the tips >>8500054 >>8500107 how so

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:33:27 2016 No.8500142 >>8500107 wrong author bro

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:45:11 2016 No.8500163 >>8500112 Oe's son is an autistic savant who writes symphonies. Some of his most famous novels consist of a main character where his son is autistic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:51:54 2016 No.8500178 >>8500163 oh so literal autism, not 4chan autism I'll check the others out but apparently the changeling by oe is quite good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:56:03 2016 No.8500188 >>8500178 i thought changeling was ok but not great. it was a tad long for a fun but not mindblowing "twist" at the end.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 10:57:22 2016 No.8500191 File: 154 KB, 268x396, Screen Shot 2016-09-12 at 12.27.12 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8499759 read this, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. Changed my life. You'll love it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 11:01:17 2016 No.8500202 >>8499759 Only good Japanese author is a dead Japanese author.

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