Nihon bungaku no honshitsu to unmei Maria Jesus De Prada Vicente 436pp hb 7,000yen
In this book, the author defines Japanese literary history as an permanent oscillation between gai-rai(the foreign and historical) and dochaku (the domestic and mythological), and considers Japanese literature from Kojiki to Kawabata Yasunari as an eternal attempt to recover the lost myth of ancient times. The method she uses to interpret literary texts is Lacanian, evaluated by her as the most efficient to understand a literature such as Japanese, which has constantly sought the memory of "le temps perdu". The readers of this book will find not only stimulating ideas on Japanese literature and culture, but also possibilities of analysing Japanese texts in universal terms. An epoch-making book, indeed.
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