Modern Japanese Literature

Abstract

Faulkner's ignorance of Japanese literature is not exceptional; few Western writers today could have answered much more fully. The great eleventh-century novel, The Tale of Genji, though superbly translated into English some thirty years ago, is still not considered an indispensable part of every educated man's library; the hauntingly beautiful No plays are remembered best because of the pun (of which people never seem to tire) between No and the common European word of negation; and the haikai poetry, though sometimes imitated even in the West, is seldom considered seriously. Even people who decorate their houses with Japanese woodblock prints and other objects of japonaiserie rarely extend their interests to Japanese literature.

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