I just read The Dancing Girl of Izu and it was very soulful. Has /lit/ read any Japanese books or short stories recently?
I started reading The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, but the incest creeped me out and I stopped. Should I try again or am I not missing out on much?
>>24986909Most short stories by Ryunosuke Akutawaga.He was deeply influenced by Western literature, so it's accessible to say. You can start with the compilation Rashomon and 17 other stories by Ray Rubin.>>24987124gg
>>24986909I read pic rel in one sitting last night, it was pretty good.
>>24986909The Great Mirror of Male Love, Ihara Saikaku
>>24986909Schoolgirl (女生徒) by Osamu Dazai
>>24987124He's a male child being raised by a single mother entering adolescence during a time when you couldn't just go online to see tits and ass. View it that way and it isn't "incest" in the way your Western coombrain frames it. Also, voyeurism is a common theme for Mishima so take it as that as well--not just "he's sexually objectifying his mother because [insert sensibilities subjective to reader]".
>>24987670I read that, liked it, but remember nothing about it a couple years later.
