Crisis in Identity: and Contemporary Japanese Novels

This book is a critical study of ten postwar Japanese novels that focus on man's search for identity in the modern world.

With the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Literature to a Japanese author in 1969, the international significance of modern Japanese literature was formally recognized by the Western world. The best indication of the West's present keen appreciation of modern Japanese literature is the large number of excellent translations that have appeared in recent years.

In Crisis ...