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J5930 --- J5931 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism

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Le sang, l'éclat et l'éros - tel fut l'univers de Mishima ; la blancheur spectrale, la pureté meurtrière, le temps orphelin - tel fut celui de Kawabata. Il n'empêche : une phrase, entre toutes, de Kawabata, laisse encore une fois deviner combien les deux écrivains sont proches : "tout artiste qui aspire au vrai, au bien et au beau comme objet ultime de sa quête est fatalement hanté par le désir de forcer l'accès difficile du monde des démons, et cette pensée, qu'elle soit apparente ou dissimulée, hésite entre la peur et la prière. "C'est peut-être là, dans les enfers, que les deux écrivains se rencontrent le mieux et il n'est pas défendu de penser que, pudique et retenu, Kawabata a secrètement trouvé en Mishima un double allant à l'extrême qui n'a pas manqué, parfois, de le révéler à lui-même." (Diane de Margerie). Cette correspondance complète et inédite, qui s'étend sur plus de vingt-cinq ans (1945-1970), met en lumière les affinités secrètes entre deux des plus grands écrivains du siècle et souligne l'indéfectible lien qui unissait ces hommes a priori différents mais dont le suicide, à deux ans d'intervalle, révèle l'étrange ressemblance.

Authors, Japanese --- J5931 --- J2284.80 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century

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"In an "other world" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts--people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer's extraordinary fiction. Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Murakami's wildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds within worlds uncharted territory. Finally in this book readers will find a map to the strange realm that grounds virtually every aspect of Murakami's writing. A journey through the enigmatic and baffling innermost mind, a metaphysical dimension where Murakami's most bizarre scenes and characters lurk, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami exposes the psychological and mythological underpinnings of this other world. Matthew Carl Strecher shows how these considerations color Murakami's depictions of the individual and collective soul, which constantly shift between the tangible and intangible but in this literary landscape are undeniably real. Through these otherworldly depths The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami also charts the writer's vivid "inner world," whether unconscious or underworld (what some Japanese critics call achiragawa, or "over there"), and its connectivity to language. Strecher covers all of Murakami's work--including his efforts as a literary journalist--and concludes with the first full-length close reading of the writer's newest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage."--

Murakami, Haruki, --- Cunshang, Chunshu, --- Murakami, Kharuki, --- Мураками, Харуки, --- מורקמי, הרוקי, --- 村上春樹 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- J5931 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Murakami, Haruki

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Nakagami Kenji is today regarded as one of the most important and influential Japanese post-war writers. Born in 1946 in the burakumin ghetto of the small coastal town of Shingu in southern Wakayama prefecture, Nakagami sailed up as a rising star on the literary skies in the mid-seventies when he became the first writer born after the Second World War to win the prestigious Akutagawa prize. He was also the first writer of the burakumin background to receive wide literary acclaim and recognition from critics and from the literary establishment. The reception of Nakagami's literature has placed him simultaneously both at the avant-garde of modern Japanese literature and near the nostalgic roots of Japan's literary origins. For while his engagement with the Japanese traditional narrative, the monogatari does indeed often seem to bring him disturbingly close to an almost reactionary nostalgia, fissures in his narrative – both in voice, structure, and theme – will at the same time dismantle this nostalgic return. Focusing on one novel, Nakagami's masterpiece Kiseki (Miracles) from 1989, this study traces his pendulous movement from nostalgia to avant-garde and back again. At the heart of the study lies the concept of negotiation – a negoti ation of cultures, languages, and borders. Nakagami is a minority writing against the constraints of a language and literature that has throughout history contributed to the discrimination of his minority group. Facing this challenge head on, Nakagami engages the literary genres that lie at the root of this discrimination, thus laying bare the difficulties facing anyone trying to break free of the bonds of culture, history, and literature.

Nakagami, Kenji. Kiseki. --- J5931 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Nakagami, Kenji, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- E-books --- Japanese literature --- History and criticism. --- Nakagami, Kenji --- Kenji, Nakagami --- Nakkagami, Kenji --- Nakagami, K. --- Nakaue, Kenji --- 中上健次

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The most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century, Yukio Mishima (1925-70) was a prime candidate for the Nobel Prize. But the prolific author shocked the world in 1970 when he attempted a coup d'état that ended in his suicide by ritual disembowelment. In this radically new analysis of Mishima's extraordinary life, Damian Flanagan deviates from the stereotypical depiction of a right-wing nationalist and aesthete, presenting the author instead as a man in thrall to the modern world while also plagued by hidden neuroses and childhood trauma that pushed him toward his explosive final act. Flanagan argues that Mishima was a man obsessed with the concepts of time and "emperor," and reveals how these were at the heart of his literature and life. Untangling the distortions in the writer's memoirs, Flanagan traces the evolution of Mishima's attempts to master and transform his sexuality and artistic persona. While often perceived as a solitary protest figure, Mishima, Flanagan shows, was very much in tune with postwar culture--he took up bodybuilding and became a model and actor in the 1950s, adopted the themes of contemporary political scandals in his work, courted English translators, and became influenced by the student protests and hippie subculture of the late 1960s. A groundbreaking reevaluation of the author, this succinct biography paints a revealing portrait of Mishima's life and work.

Authors, Japanese --- J5931 --- J2284.80 --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) -- criticism --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century --- Mishima, Yukio, --- Yukio, Mishima --- 三島由紀夫