Tag: Japanese fiction

August 24, 2021

Q&A: Juliet Winters Carpenter on Translating Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel

Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel, published in 1995, radically broke with Japanese literary tradition by liberally incorporating English words and phrases and printing the entire text horizontally, to be read from left to right, rather than vertically and from right to left....

August 17, 2021

Where Are the Women Writers?

The Missing Literature of Japan’s Edo Period

By G. G. Rowley

Writing by Japanese women flourished from the late tenth through the early fourteenth centuries. Almost all of the surviving works from this period have now been translated into English, some more than once, and many are available in editions suitable...

December 11, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Ground Zero, Nagasaki

An excerpt from “Ground Zero, Nagasaki: Stories,” by Seirai Yuichi and translated by Paul Warham.

December 13, 2013

Excerpt from Natsume Soseki's Light and Dark, Part II

This week our featured book is Light and Dark: A Novel by Natsume Sōseki, translated with an introduction by John Nathan. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book, its author, and its translator on our blog...

December 12, 2013

Natsume Soseki: The Merits and Flaws of -isms

Read “The Merits and Flaws of -isms,” by Natsume Soseki, excerpted from The Theory of Literature.

December 11, 2013

John Nathan's Introduction to Light and Dark

This week our featured book is Light and Dark: A Novel by Natsume Sōseki, translated with an introduction by John Nathan. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book, its author, and its translator on our blog...

December 10, 2013

Excerpt from Natsume Sōseki's Light and Dark

Read the first nine chapters of Natsume Soseki’s masterpiece, Light and Dark!