The Contribution of Futabatei Shimei
by
Hiroko Cockerill
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909) is widely regarded as the founder of the modern Japanese novel. His novel Floating Clouds (1887-1889) was written in a colloquial narrative style that was unprecedented in Japanese literature, as was its negative hero. Futabatei was also a pioneer translator of Russian...