the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers, as well as a historical introduction by Professor Keene. Includes: ?Growing Up” by Ichiyo, a lyrical story of pre-adolescence in the 90s; Natsume’s story of ?Botchan,” an ill-starred and ineffectual Huck Finn; Nagai’s ?The Sumida River”; Kokomitsu’s Kafkaesque ?Time”; Kawabata’s ?The Mole”; ?Firefly Hunt”; a glimpse into Tanizaki’s masterpiece ?Thin Snow”; and the postwar work of such writers as Dazai and Mishima.

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