The book will also serve as an important reference for those studying twentieth-century Japanese literature." -Steve Rabson, professor emeritus of Japanese, Brown University "This is a tour de force that gives readers a full and vivid picture of Japanese literature and its cultural milieu between 19, with smoothly rendered translations of influential works and a thought-provoking critique of how trends and movements during this period have been 'constructed' and 'reinvented' ever since. Thomas Rimer, professor emeritus of Japanese literature, University of Pittsburgh Be prepared to rethink the nature of modern Japanese literature or better still, simply read these often wondrous tales, some tall, some short, one after the other, and enjoy a remarkable, liberating moment in Japanese literary history." -J. "William Tyler has assembled a remarkable collection of interwar stories that vividly capture the spirit of modanizumu,an assemblage of free-wheeling attitudes towards the pleasures of the lived life, the vicissitudes of contemporary culture, and the ambiguous nature of human personality, providing in the aggregate a series of glittering glimpses into still another artistic Japan, one far removed both from the earnestness of the preceding Meiji period and the ensuing dark years of the Pacific War.
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