Tokyo in transit
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Tokyo in Transit offers look through modern Japanese literature and culture, and includes the first English translation of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning author. Freedman argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations, transport workers, and passengers,(...)
Tokyo in transit
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$26.95
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Résumé:
Tokyo in Transit offers look through modern Japanese literature and culture, and includes the first English translation of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning author. Freedman argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations, transport workers, and passengers, Japanese authors responded to contradictions in Tokyo's urban modernity and exposed the effects of rapid change on the individual.