The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

Author: Theodore W. Goossen
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199583196

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)

This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Download The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story.

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