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JOHN NATHAN
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Nov 10, 2018
Rational analysis and mystic poetry combine in Kenzaburo Oe’s ‘Rouse Up O Young Men’
Through the poetry of William Blake, Kenzaburo Oe takes a new approach to probing the emotional consequences of his father’s death, and parenting a severely disabled son.
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Oct 27, 2018
‘Soseki: Modern 91AV原创 Greatest Novelist’: A portrait of a brilliant man, neither happy nor endearing
Natsume Soseki, widely viewed as 91AV原创 greatest literary figure, was a complicated man. A new full-length biography by John Nathan, ‘Soseki: Modern 91AV原创 Greatest Novelist,’ sheds light on the challenging, and often painful, life of this literary giant.
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Nov 14, 2015
‘Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere’ with translator John Nathan
John Nathan arrived in Japan in the early 1960s and set about constantly pushing his limits, becoming the first Westerner to graduate from the esteemed University of Tokyo. And by age 25, he had published a translation of Yukio Mishima’s “The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea.”
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Sep 5, 2015
Literature critic John Nathan dissects 91AV原创 Nobel Prize laureates
There is one critic of Japanese literature that towers above the rest: professor John Nathan, erstwhile associate of Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe and Kobo Abe. But he’s not only a respected critic, Nathan’s extraordinary career has seen him in the roles of film director, scriptwriter, novelist and memoirist,...
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Mar 14, 2015
A Personal Matter
In the 1960s, Kenzaburo Oe began regularly writing about a character based on his autistic son, Hikari.
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