Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel

by Masao Miyoshi

Overview

The Japanese novel, lately so widely translated, is finding a broader and better informed readership than ever before. Until now, however, no comprehensive critical discussion of the form has been available in a Western language. Masao Miyoshi offers an intensive reading of several outstanding novels of the past hundred years. He explains that the Japanese novel, usually regarded as basically Western in style, retains native elements that utterly resist Western influence. Citing Western, especially English, novels for comparison, he demonstrates how the Japanese novel differs in important formal aspects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780939512768
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	01/01/1996
Series:	Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies , #16
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Masao Miyoshi (1928–2009) was Hajime Mori Endowed Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.