Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century write by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck. This book was released on 1994. Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.
Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction
Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction write by Noriko Mizuta Lippit. This book was released on 2015-03-04. Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review
Naomi
Naomi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naomi write by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. This book was released on 2024-03-16. Naomi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
The Diving Pool
The Diving Pool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Diving Pool write by Yoko Ogawa. This book was released on 2008-01-22. The Diving Pool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's? A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg. Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.
源氏物語
源氏物語 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 源氏物語 write by 紫式部. This book was released on 2007-06. 源氏物語 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
