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Donald Keene offers a book that is both an introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong interest in Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelists offers profiles of prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, and Shiba Ryotaro. Keene blends vignettes describing encounters with these famous men, autobiographical observations, and insightful, elegant 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