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Contemporary Japftneselitか ratur6y an anthology of打ctiQn, film, andぬtheriyrHing since 1945, edはed by Howard Hibbett, Alfred A. Knoi)f, : New York, 1977. Pp.xivがus 468;illuBtra-ted Hardback,多15.00; paper,
Reviewed by BRIANPOWEJLL
Ant)h6loぉies aree— "ifco cHti-6ize.ヌ0 antho!pgy;oaT1possibly please everyone. '(Conteitvporary Japanもse !4tもraiture" is easy to ,ticiきa J id nt) doubt some will find fauれ?With it,Bui^it~IFiiti-sorDmg reacung; one sinijpiy can-not put it down. Its :quaぉtyぉ. sゅh that allthe' usjj^alcぉUcisine seempetty, s【mplyぁe汰riiiき<nit tJi…si?:icUires of抑ellさy (and
others) again" thもrace oJf Te- those who dひnotiegd Japanese
'First the qui'Wbles, Oneお surprised to find that in an anthology with ,the讼tW "Contemporary Japanese liiteratoe" jhalf the selections were publishM tWo de<^des乡go'抑d nearly half the authors afeintheir fifties. Perhaps oni? is i;onぉtioned l>y the Japanese》as8ioii for Tiew* li柳,11 a:ememl^:r a ;f扭years aぉo wondei;ingouiloud at ;t旨 phぉp price; taigoii逸1966-edition "Britaゎhica" in a kindaぉook-shop, im!y to 'be ftiformedもy oneofi;hei otlier xustomers饰ait 沐was "o^d." "Contemporary" is ま:poutse a translation of the
J邻anesb "word gend汰i,,liiah, as , the 8uibtitle makes )Cleaちcan ii^clude sinything postwar, but
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to tjie <lisc0 after a brief period. So J兮ff explained in Japanese to Uie d—mianwJiat we wished' to do: to (jbtain a pass to re-enter.
The man at the door then directed a quest ion to 、兮(3n«ra-panese, of course) instead off to "ff. because Ilooked Japanese, iAiter aぉrief peaiod of sile班, Jeff had to explain that I couldn't speak Jap即ese, much to his shock and證a说ment.
It se柳ed rat;hei" humorous and somewhat em'barasshig,tmt this experience is quitecommon. Unlike ilssei and Nisei, most third generation Nikkei are :riot fluent ;in tiheJapaneselai^guage.
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This "COmmunication difficult5rお 加mtK)unded wHh the fact that Sansかl<)ok sbmewhat simil"i to n汰Uve Jaj)anese youtiiand also hーぉpanese surnames; therefore, the assiimpiion is often m&de that we arie a't>le to speak Japanese.
iMost of the people I,vesnco-loitered in Tokyo have 'been quitelinderstanding ydtih mjr lapk of fluencyゅd, fortunately, many of the colkg もstvid印ts are able to <understand alittle English which convMiied with my broken Japanese hぉallo,d 加eさome amount ofcomniuniica-Uon aiwlcontact"w她individiials here.
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One might aぉoゅgard t(he pro portion of》reviously publi allied material效さtoo hdgli.The flyshe^t isでQれ'ect in spying ?that '(jno3t,, of the tranilatipns ai« newy biit the old (ines incltide major items such ^as Kurosawa's "Ikifu" Si?en及rio andA'be iCobo,s alii ngeidて piay, "<Friends." A num" b^erカf tT"aれがなtioi)s of fi】m' sce-jiario sh&vもrecently fee en jHib-li芽hed and Ozu,s "TokjrゥSto^ry" 化newly translated here, (but hardly anygliin^kiplays a?*€ aV aliable t "he Tion-specialist. A i ne, tranさlatiQn Tvouldhさve beeii especially welcome.
Sudi抑anthology isぉoupd tQ whet the appetite but a;part frひin tantalizing indications tl)at other w(n'ks by the same ;autho;*s have appeared in English, theonly,idもgiventofin, ding these is A Teference in他e Editor ,s:nひte to el11tern at io:rial Hou,se Library iT)ぉbIiiography of modem Japaneseliterature in "Western translationg. /This excellent bibliograpihy was puTblisfhed 'in1972 and*does no"nelude all the tr a IISla ti 01IS referred to by-ぉte inthe introductory sections of the antholog^y. The specialist willbe able to】6cate post1972 translations, ー the generalrぉader may nQt.
Such :miin6r matters apart, this "Anthology of Fiction, Film, andOUier "^ril4ng Since 1945,, as the subtitle morecotf-ectly puts it, is a masterpiece of its kind. If One hopes for a se-lectioh of authors他at isasre, preseiitativeぶs 6an reaゅna]bly be expected, one willfind ithei^e,。 If、りneIboks for a repi:etentative
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The range of writers *is admi-Tさl)k; even if manyof thjem are middle-age4 Or older have pasさed &"way. They includelyia* jor novelists and poets .他e peilod, such as ;Mぉhima,ぉwa-bata, aiid Mitsuh^ruKanel^o, other established writers, and a few aspirants, df one、ishes to appreciate (juickly the quintessence ofKawabata, Mishhna, Ke: nzaburo Oe, and maybe others, one 3h0uld go to this antholoj^. Th6 selection has clearly been done with great care加d much hard work. One hopes that as a resuU of the publication of this anthology, some wrdteis hitherto untranslated may soon be more accessible to the nonspecialist. The appearance in translation for the first time of writers such as Yoshikidii Furui and
Taeko Kono ahoyId encourage wo illbe translators to mai n tain, pr € sat ire りnlikely publishers. It isinevitゅle that many wrレ ters have been p m it ted, ケOne misses Tれesぉ(Ken) Kaiko, ibut no airtiioibgry can include everyone.
The rang*^ of styleき,n<i genres" が30 hnpressiye.Whi'l$:fic* tion and i)oetry <can 't>e t^k^ii for 奴"hted, it is "u;iusua1:fii^d film did dr汰ma inpluded iひ加cji anthologies. "Within七he g印re ofぉcHon itself there is also muc!)i:Vなrieもy: inlengぱ,from Kawa'bata,s "Veiry幼ort Stories" to他さ(in this ti^anslatiort) 37 !^agも?L of 'JFHiriii;)rosyiikichi,き リWedlQck"; dn style, ;fきthe "introverted" Furui to MisWmaV eariy《onmi,d"Destiny (Ge-"ius) EqualきBeauty Equals Dea他":in "The Boy Who ,6ぉ Poetry", in七heme, through a gamut oぇbewiWeringlyimaginative pictures oflぱe in postwar Japan to stories based on Chinese legend arid Greek myth (and anoi:heiv version of "Brief Encounter" in the,がece byT效tsuo Nagai).
A further strengtih ofthis anthology is the (Quality of the translgbkm. One senses strong editorialsupervision or at the vefyleast an editorial (presence which has inspired the new contributors to produce their 'best. The CO US is tent ,turaliiess of the English maylullthe readei* intoんrgeはing that啦s isliterature producedぉy a radically different culturaltradition; but the selection has印sured "that this <ioes not happen. Whileヌ Japれologist舰y sm卩eぉnow-£ngly at the portrait^ of diffe-?"e:nt types of "b]ie English-lang;;-
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