JAPANESE LITERATURE CHALLENGE 14
#JapaneseLitChallenge14 #JapaneseLiterature
Thanks to DolceBelleza (@bellezzamjs) who has been organizing this challenge for many years! This is my 6th participation.
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The Challenge runs January-March 2021. I’m going to try to read 3 books each month, so that’s a total of 9 books.
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Here is my TBR for this event (my recap will be updated at the end of this post):
📚 Books on my physical shelf:
1. The Sound of Waves (1954), by Yukio Mishima (trans. by Meredith Weatherby)
2. N.P. (1990), by Banana Yoshimoto (trans. by Ann Sherif)
3. Some Prefer Nettles (1928), by Junichirō Tanizaki (trans. by Edward G. Seidensticker)
📚 For my Classics Club list (besides # 1 and 3 above):
4. Kusamakura (1906), by Natsume Sōseki (trans. by Meredith Weatherby)
5. To the Spring Equinox and Beyond (1910), by Natsume Sōseki (trans. by Kingo Ochiai Sanford M. Goldstein)
6. The Miner (1908), by Natsume Sōseki (trans. by Jay Rubin)
7. Devils in Daylight (1918), by Junichirō Tanizaki (Dans l’œil du démon, trans. in French by Patrick Honoré and Ryoko Sekiguchi)
8. In Praise of Shadows (1933), by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker , Thomas J. Harper ,
9. A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (1936), by Junichirō Tanizaki (trans. by Paul McCarthy)
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RECAP FOR MARCH 31
So here are the books I managed to read:
1. The Sound of Waves (1954), by Yukio Mishima (trans. by Meredith Weatherby),
finished on 1/16/21, reviewed here
2. Some Prefer Nettles (1928), by Junichirō Tanizaki (trans. by Edward G. Seidensticker), finished on 1/22/21, reviewed here
3. N.P. (1990), by Banana Yoshimoto (trans. by Ann Sherif)
finished on 1/25/21, reviewed here
4. In Praise of Shadows (1933), by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker , Thomas J. Harper ,
finished on 2/4/21, reviewed here
5. A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (1936), by Junichirō Tanizaki (trans. by Paul McCarthy),
finished on 2/9/21, reviewed here
6. Devils in Daylight (1918), by Junichirō Tanizaki (Dans l’œil du démon, trans. in French by Patrick Honoré and Ryoko Sekiguchi), finished on 2/13/21, reviewed here
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WHICH OTHER BOOKS WOULD YOU ENCOURAGE ME
TO READ FOR THIS CHALLENGE?
