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"No other modern Korean writers living under Japanese rule (1910-1945) experienced the history of their country more intimately and intensely than did Han Yong-un and Yi Kwang-su, for they were more than writers. Han was an eminent Buddhist monk, and Yi was an equally prominent national leader. Their careers crossed often, involving politics, journalism, literature, and religion. And yet they lived a world apart, pursuing opposite paths. Han was revered for his fierce commitment to Korean independence and his single volume of poems, The Silence of My Beloved. Yi, despite all his contributions to the development of modern Korean literature, particularly his first novel Heartless, has been bra...
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Uncovers the roots of Americans' construction of the "Orient" by examining the work of nineteenth-century authors
Psychological novel in which an introspective professor of early modern Japan is estranged from his wife and family.
Critical biography of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan.
A strange relationship develops between Ichiro, his wife Onao, and his brother Jiro as a result of Ichiro's and Onao's incompatibility