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A superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction as well as a memoir of his own love affair with Japanese literature and culture, this volume consists of chapters on five modern Japanese novelists whom Donald Keene knew personally: Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Ryotaro Shiba, and Kobo Abe. Each chapter opens with a vignette describing Keene's personal encounters with these famous men, blending his autobiographical observations with literary and cultural analysis.

Japanese fiction --- Authors, Japanese --- History and criticism. --- J2284.70 --- J5500.70 --- J5931 --- History and criticism --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- modern, Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Japanese fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Authors, Japanese - 20th century --- Abe, Kōbō --- Kawabata, Yasunari --- Mishima, Yukio --- Shiba, Ryōtarō --- Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō