Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed
companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now
considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into
English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to
the writers, as well as a historical introduction by Professor Keene.
Includes: "Growing Up" by Ichiyo, a lyrical story of pre-adolescence in
the 90s; Natsume's story of "Botchan," an ill-starred and ineffectual
Huck Finn; Nagai's "The Sumida River"; Kokomitsu's Kafkaesque "Time";
Kawabata's "The Mole"; "Firefly Hunt"; a glimpse into Tanizaki's
masterpiece "Thin Snow"; and the postwar work of such writers as Dazai
and Mishima.