Why are Japanese books so depressing?
>>23322890Buddhism (and some Confucianism)
>>23322890Live in Japan and find out.
>>23322890All of those authors are confirmed sex-havers. So as Pessoa said, they are like all artists; fakers.
>>23322890only one i read was no longer human because of the meme. i didn't get it tho.
>>23322890Doesn't Sound of Waves have a happy ending?
>>23322890Just finished Norwegian wood and i had the same impression. But i find i do like jap books
>be nippon>get nuked>twice>empire that nuked you makes your god emporer bend the knee>just go back to work like nothing happened>get sad sometimes, for some reason
The Japanese like non-endings that are heavy with a sense of loss. Endings where the character's inner journey terminates before you think the plot would. I think of them as like standing a river, it keeps on moving with or without you.I think its the Buddhist thing, the world just keeps moving and whats gone is gone, where as the Western/Christian mindset is predicated on the belief that one day everything that ever was will be judged and accounted for.
