The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting…
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1. Our Lady of the Flowers
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
4.01
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more
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"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
2. Sanshirō
By: Jay Rubin , Natsume Sōseki
3.82
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving t… read more
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"Desire is a frightening thing."-Jay Rubin, Sanshirō
"Doğa, bir mücevheri yaratana kadar kim bilir kaç yıl harcamıştır. Yine o mücevher, madencinin şansı yaver gidene dek, yıldızlar altında kaç yıl, tek başına parlamıştır?"-Jay Rubin, Sanshirō
"Ora io sto studiando questo libro solo per l'esame, solo per guadagnarmi il pane, trattenendo rabbia e lacrime. Ricordate: sia maledetto per sempre il sistema degli esami!"-Jay Rubin, Sanshirō
"Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society—and does his best to avoid i…"-Jay Rubin, Sanshirō
3. Norwegian Wood
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
4.01
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a be… read more
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"I wonder what ants do on rainy days?"-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning."-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,"-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
4. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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- japanese literature
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5. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Yoshihiro Tatsumi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the sou… read more
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6. Rashomon and Other Stories
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Takashi Kojima
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories o… read more
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7. The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
By: Yiyun Li , Julia Lovell , Lu Xun , 魯迅
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
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8. The Lake
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Reiko Tsukimura
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
This story of a stalker is a unique work by the first Japanese Nobel Prize winner for Literature. T… read more
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9. Botchan
By: Natsume Sōseki , Joel Cohn
3.64
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about … read more
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"الواقع أن البشر هم أقل ما يمكن الاعتماد عليه في هذا العالم."-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan
"Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business."-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan
"Really, there’s nothing in the world as undependable as human beings."-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan
"Ketika manusia bebas memutuskan untuk menghormatimu, hadiah yang kaumiliki lebih mahal nilainya daripada apapun."-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan
10. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more
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11. Diary of a Mad Old Man
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Howard Hibbett
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who… read more
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12. Mishima: A Biography
By: John Nathan
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both… read more
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13. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima
By: Henry Scott Stokes
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima This biography begins with the spectacularly tragic last day of… read more
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14. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
15. The Setting Sun
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
4.36
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the s… read more
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16. No Longer Human
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more
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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
17. The Key
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to m… read more
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18. The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
By: Yasunari Kawabata , J. Martin Holman
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Influential Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata has constructed an autobiography through his fictio… read more
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19. House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese… read more
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20. The Old Capital
By: Yasunari Kawabata , J. Martin Holman
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
The Old Capitalis one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they award… read more
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21. The Silent Cry
By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Bester
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling o… read more
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22. A Personal Matter
By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Nathan
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as on… read more
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23. The Sound of the Mountain
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble fro… read more
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24. The Face of Another
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis,this classic of postwar Japanese literat… read more
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25. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
26. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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27. The Makioka Sisters
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a wa… read more
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28. Thousand Cranes
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.71
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousa… read more
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"Гріх ніколи не змиєш, а горе минає."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"Коли вона померла, я з жалем подумала: навіть якщо її не розуміли, то все одно смерть не можна виправдати. Смерть виключає будь-яку надію на порозуміння."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"– Понимаете, Кикудзисан, человек не может быть благоразумным и мудрым, если в нем слишком сильно мужское или женское начало. – Да? Значит, мудрость среднего пола? – Иронизируете? Ну, ну… Однако, когд…"-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
29. Snow Country
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.59
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more
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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
30. Beauty and Sadness
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Howard Hibbett
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: Mei shisatoAi shimito Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by… read more
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31. Mishima ou La vision du vide
By: Marguerite Yourcenar
3.69
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Le 24 novembre 1970, Mishima prépare avec un soin minutieux sa mort. Il est âgé de quarante-cinq an… read more
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