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(5/5)July 30, 2023
The title sounds like clickbait, but it's a reference to a line from Soseki's novel Sanshiro. This is a book length essay on why Japanese literature had a tremendous flowering in the late 19th and early 20th century as Japanese and Western culture came into contact, and on the question of whether it (and other literary cultures in other languages) can continue to flourish in a world where English is increasingly the universal global language of communication. It also takes detours into areas i
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