Contact
How to shop
Delivery
Shopping guide
La Lampe D'Akutagawa: Essais Sur La Litterature Japonaise Moderne
French
108 b
Delivery to Austria
30-day return policy
This work is a compendium of the key essays written by one of the most eminent Western experts on Japan. These texts deal primarily with writers of the Meiji Era (1868–1912). Here, readers will find studies on the art of the novel, on “essays on traces of the brush” [the art of Japanese calligraphy], on the fondness of Japanese writers for the visual arts, as well as on the activities of a few significant intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A vast panorama of modern Japanese literary history rounds out this outstanding work.Although virtually no critical review of Japanese literature exists in the French language at present, Jean-Jacques Origas’ posthumous work lays some valuable groundwork from a radically new perspective. In a very lively style, the book helps readers to comprehend the changes which took place in modern Japanese literature after the country opened its doors to the 19th century Western world.
About the book
French
