Oriental Lit

Soseki and Tanizaki

Ogawa, Izumi Kyouka (dunno if he's translated)

>>8499759
Soseki - Read him if you like muh individualism, social anxiety, and isolation in an industrializing world. Recommended reads are I Am a Cat, Kokoro, and if you're really interested the two thematic trilogies (of which Kokoro is a part of the late trilogy)

Dazai - Read him if you like muh suffering, muh loneliness. Recommended are The Setting Sun and No Longer Human.

Kawabata - Read him if you like muh aesthetics, beauty, and somberness at the changing of eras. Recommended reading is Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and The Old Capital

Tanizaki - Read him if you're lewd and enjoy muh nostalgia for the past. Recommended reads include The Makioka Sisters, The Diary of a Mad Old Man, and if you want to see what the opposite of a weeaboo looks like, Naomi.

Endo - Read him if you like muh Japanese Catholicism and persecution. Recommended reads are The Silence and candal

Abe - Read him if you want a lesser version of Kafka and muh social anxiety in the postmodern era. Recommended reads are Face of Another, Woman in the Dunes, and The Ruined Map

>>8500051
Oh and read Oe if you like autism.

>>8500054
Honosexuality*

>>8500051
>>8500017
thanks for the tips

>>8500054
>>8500107
how so

>>8500107
wrong author bro

>>8500112
Oe's son is an autistic savant who writes symphonies.

Some of his most famous novels consist of a main character where his son is autistic.

>>8500163
oh so literal autism, not 4chan autism

I'll check the others out but apparently the changeling by oe is quite good.

>>8500178
i thought changeling was ok but not great. it was a tad long for a fun but not mindblowing "twist" at the end.

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>>8499759
read this, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. Changed my life. You'll love it

>>8499759
Only good Japanese author is a dead Japanese author.