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Japanese Writers and the West
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This book concludes Sumie Okada's trilogy concerning cultural relationships between Japan and the West. This volume discusses six Japanese authors (Soseki, Mishima, Akiko Yosano, Hiroshi Yosano, Endo and Murakami), analysing the encounter between their traditional Japanese group-consciousness and western individualism. It also covers Endo's student days in Lyon, and his relationship with the humanist Françoise Pastre, appending a moving account by her sister Geneviève.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Failed Individualism’ Observed in Japan: the Novels of Soseki Natsume (1867–1916)
- 2 The Visit by Hiroshi Yosano (1873–1935) and Akiko Yosano (1878–1942) to France and England in 1912
- 3 Yukio Mishima (1925–70): His Love of Idiosyncracy and of ‘Failed Groupism’, in Parallel with His Romantic Escape into the Freedom of the Sea, Observed in His Work The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- 4 Traces of a Different Sort of ‘Groupism’ in Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (b. 1949)
- 5 Shusaku Endo (1923–96): His Japanese Context and Its Importance in the Analysis of his Relationship with Françoise Pastre (1930–71)
- 6 Geneviève Pastre’s Article about Her Sister, Françoise
- Appendix 1: Geneviève Pastre’s article about Her sister Françoise: Original French Text
- Appendix 2: Geneviève Pastre’s article about Her sister Françoise: English Translation
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Glossary of Japanese Terms
- Bibliography
- Index