One of the genres for the West that is more difficult to read is the literature of Japan. They have their own literary empire, although we consume a lot of anime, their culture transcends Japanese literature. We have to talk about several important points, so we are going to analyze it properly.
The aesthetics of Japan represents the writer, we can talk about Yasunari Kawabata who was the first Japanese Nobel Prize winner to be a bit western but with large oriental features, however the renewal of literature uses narrative resources and procedures that have more European touches than the same Orientals, the decline of Japanese traditionalism are destabilized by this indisputation of American interests, Japanese writers now write to be consumed by American or European readers.
Kawabaka Nobel Prize is an author of his time, he studies at the University of Tokyo, an excellent doctor is literature, he enters the literary world with the iso dancer, the noise of the mountain, among others he begins a career where the aesthetic renovation of Japanese literature. His novels are simple his arguments, that is, very easy to read, but with enough depth.
Society is openly patriarchal, that is to say that women are in a more secondary role, her first novel tries to explain these forms and as her protagonist as a female figure has more protagonist, her themes are mainly geisha, a subject not unknown in many readers in the world, we will remember memories of a geisha a novel made into the cinema.
The writer is subject to great transformations throughout his literary career, in his narrations both worlds operate, especially the spatiality with the interiority, it has to be seen that the Japanese novel is the ancient and the modern, but everything that his writing deals with it is like poetry they go more towards emotions than telling a story, one has to enter this world, Kawabaka is easy to understand but his literature is complex, they express their ideas through emotions and not great philosophical themes like the Russians. They are two totally different worlds, society and its history are very marked by their country and its enormous culture.
From what already dies to the new, from the rural to the urban, a writer who commits suicide unfortunately perhaps had more literary creations one tries to look for, but there is always a feeling of a veil of sadness in his novels, perhaps his life is a example of it. The appreciation of features, irregularity, asymmetry, uniformity, is in part of the literature of the great Japanese writers defining features of the Japanese.
There is still a lot to analyze and read.
