JAPANESE LITERATURE CHALLENGE 15

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Thanks to DolceBelleza (@bellezzamjs) who has been organizing this challenge for many years! This is my 7th participation.
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The Challenge runs January-March 2022. I’m going to try to read 4 books each month, so that’s a total of 12 books.

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Here is my TBR (in chronological order) for this event – my recap, with links to my reviews, will be updated at the end of this post:

📚 For the Classics Club:

1. The Wild Geese (1911), by Ogai Mori (trans. by Sanford Goldstein and Kingo Ochiai)
2. How Do You Live? (1937), by Genzaburo Yoshino (trans. by Bruno Navasky)
3. Dōjōji (1957), by Yukio Mishima (not sure yet for the translator, will specify later when I read it)
4. The Waiting Years (1957), by Fumiko Enchi (trans. by John Bester)
5. Star (1961), by Yukio Mishima (trans. by Sam Bett)
6. Les Dimanches De Monsieur Ushioda (1970), by Yasushi Inoue (not sure yet for the translator, will specify later when I read it). I don’t think it has been translated into English. Let me know
7. The Box Man (1973), by Kōbō Abe (trans. by E. Dale Saunders )
8. The Year of My Life (1973), by Kobayashi Issa (trans. by Nobuyuki Yuasa)
9. When I Whistle (1974), by Shūsaku Endō (trans. by Van C. Gessel)

📚 More recent:

10. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (1981), by Sōji Shimada (trans. by Shika MacKenzie and Ross MacKenzie)
11. Murder in the Crooked House (1982), by Sōji Shimada (trans. by Louise Heal Kawai)
12. Confessions (2008), by Kanae Minato (trans. by Stephen Snyder)

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RECAP FOR MARCH 31

So here are the books I managed to read – with one not on the above list!:

1. The Wild Geese (1911), by Ogai Mori (trans. by Sanford Goldstein and Kingo Ochiai)
2. How Do You Live? (1937), by Genzaburo Yoshino (trans. by Bruno Navasky)
3. Dōjōji (1957), by Yukio Mishima (trans. into French by Dominique Aury)
4. The Waiting Years (1957), by Fumiko Enchi (trans. into French by Anne Bayard-Sakai and Cécile Sakai)
5. Star (1961), by Yukio Mishima (trans. by Sam Bett)
6. Les Dimanches De Monsieur Ushioda (1970), by Yasushi Inoue (trans. into French by Jean-François Laffont and Tadahiro Oku)
7. The Box Man (1973), by Kōbō Abe (trans. by E. Dale Saunders)
8. River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942). Trans. by Sam Hamill and Keiko Matsui Gibson (1996)

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