Modern Japanese Writers By Jay Rubin

Jay Rubin is an American academic and translator He is most notable for being one of the main translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami He has also written a guide to Japanese Making Sense of Japanese and a biographical literary analysis of Murakami. This is the first encyclopedia in the Scribner Writers Series to focus on Asian writers and genres It highlights 25 of the most widely translated Japanese authors such as Yukio Mishima Kobo Abe Junichiro Tanizaki and Fumiko Enchi Modern Japanese WritersThe book is a great though VERY expensive introduction to the very best novelists from modern Japan I m particularly fond of the chapter on writer Sakaguchi Ango perhaps because I wrote it 464