Japanese Lit.

[Technomancer]

I'm curious if anyone here reads novels by Japanese authors, and if so which ones?

I'm just starting Kenzaburo Oe's "An Echo of Heaven" at the moment.

[Mithrandir]

I'm curious if anyone here reads novels by Japanese authors, and if so which ones?

Well, I read Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura. Although I guess it was more of an autobiographical work than a novel, per se.

[Technomancer]

That's the one about the Kevin Mitnick bust isn't it?

[Mithrandir]

Yeah. I enjoyed it. Then again, I live in the SF bay area.

[Technomancer]

I've heard of Ishiguro, but never read him yet. The only authors that I've read are Shosako Endo, and Haruki Murakami. Both of them are very good, although very different. Endo's writing is largely concerned with Christianity, and Murakami is...different. I like the stuff of his that I've read; people who are into Kurt Vonnegut or Philip K. **** might enjoy it.

edit: grrr...bloody censor.

[Kat]

I've read Shosako Endo as well. Also read a book by a young female Japanese writer whose name escapes me....and also tried to read "The Tale of the Genji" by Lady Murasaki, but it was so long, big and involved (and full of a LOT of foolin' around ) that I couldn't finish it. Barely got into the first chapter, really.

I would like to read more Japanese literature. I will look for Haruki Murakami in the library.

--Kathleen

[Mithrandir]

[quote="Technomancer"]I like the stuff of his that I've read]

No Kidding. My favorite one that doesn't work is pea-****.

If you spell it without the - it works fine. Odd.

peacock
pea ****
pea-****.