Breaking into Japanese Literature Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text,9784770028990

Breaking into Japanese Literature Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text

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Edition: Bilingual
ISBN13: 9784770028990
ISBN10: 4770028997
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-03-14
Publisher(s): Kodansha USA
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Summary

Seven famous Japanese stories in different genres - from comedy to hor ror -re presented here, in a bilingual format for students of Japanese. Each pagef Japanese contains a full English translation and a guide to grammar andocabluary. Each story is also prefaced with an author biography, storyackground and helpful hints for reading.

Author Biography


GILES MURRAY lives in Tokyo where he works as a writer, translator, editor, and copywriter. He is the author of Kodansha International's best-selling "anti-textbook," 13 Secrets for Speaking Fluent Japanese, and appears as Jeremy Hilditch in the Japanese for Busy People: The Video series. Among his translations are Master Modeler: Creating the Tamiya Style (the autobiography of Shunsaku Tamiya, president of Tamiya Inc.) and Love Hina, a manga series about a bespectacled youth who becomes the janitor of a girls' dormitory.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. 6
Natsume Sosekip. 12
The First Nightp. 14
The Third Nightp. 30
The Fifth Nightp. 46
The Seventh Nightp. 60
Akutagawa Ryunosukep. 76
In a Grovep. 78
The Nosep. 146
Rashomonp. 198
Selected Bibliographyp. 240
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