Kenji Miyazawa

Once and Forever

The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa

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Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan's most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain resemblance to those of his contemporary Robert Walser. John Bester's selection and expert translation of Miyazawa's short fiction reflects its full range from the joyful, innocent Wildcat and the Acorns, to the cautionary tale The Restaurant of Many Orders, to The Earthgod and the Fox, which starts out whimsically before taking a tragic turn. Miyazawa also had a deep connection to Japanese folklore and an intense love of the natural world. In Th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Bester, John (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-68137-261-7
EAN: 9781681372617
Produktnummer: 25461690
Verlag: New York Review Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'475 KB

Über den Autor

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) was born in Iwate, one of the northernmost prefectures in Japan. In high school, he studied Zen Buddhism and developed a lifelong devotion to the Lotus Sutra, a major influence on his writing. After graduating from an agricultural college, he moved to Tokyo to begin his writing career but had to return home to care for a sick sister. He remained in his home in Iwate for the rest of his life. One of his best-known works is the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad, which was adapted into anime in the late twentieth century, as were many of his short stories. Much of his poetry is still popular in Japan today. John Bester (1927-2010) was a renowned translator of Japanese fiction, including Masuji Ibuse's Black Rain, Kenzaburo Oe's The Silent Cry, and Yukio Mishima's Acts of Worship: Seven Stories, for which he received the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature.