Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel Volume 16

by Masao Miyoshi

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939512769
• ISBN13: 9780939512768
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"