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Two Japanese Novelists: Soseki & Toson (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)
Two Japanese Novelists Soseki Toson - Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature Author:Edwin McClellan Two writers, Natsume Soseki and Shimazaki Toson, invented the modern Japanese novel. — Soseki is the eccentric novelist who appears on the 10,000 yen note. His contemporary, Shimazaki Toson, brought to Japanese fiction a lyricism previously seen only in poetry and nature writing. — As revered today as they were during their own lifetimes, these tw... more »o writers boldly established the novel as a major literary form in Japan.« less