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From the novels of Ben Lerner to Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy (2014–2018) and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s multi-volume My Struggle (2009–2011), some of the most eye-catching literary fiction of recent years has been heavily autobiographical. The prototype of the modern autobiographical novel is generally considered to be Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913–1927). What is less widely known, here in the West, is that a very similar kind of novel came to prominence in early twentieth-century Japan. In 1907, a few years before the first volume of Proust’s opus saw the light of day, Katai Tayama published Futon, an autobiographical novella inspired by his unconsummated relationship with a female admirer and protégé. In 1912 Naoya Shiga published ....
Jan 16, 2021 Not only is Jeffrey Angles an award-winning translator of contemporary Japanese works, he’s also an award-winning Japanese poet. In 2017, the American writer received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for his collection of poems written in Japanese, “Watashi no hizukehenkosen” (“My International Date Line”), making him one of a handful of non-Japanese writers to win the prize. Angles, 49, first came to Japan for a four-month stint as a 15-year-old exchange student, and improved his language skills by taking courses at Ohio State University while still in high school. Drawn to poetry from an early age, Angles says not only did he love the genre, it also aided his language acquisition. “Poems are shorter than short stories or novels, of course, and it was fun to wrap my head around a poem and try to think through it,” Angles says. “I was able to do that more quickly than with longer texts, so it was an early way to build up my reading pro ....