Sand Girl

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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Currently, the most popular Japanese author in China is Haruki Murakami, while the predecessor he admires is Kōbō Abe. Both are anomalies in the Japanese literary world. On the surface, their common characteristics are their disdain for tradition and their mastery of Western modernism. However, a revolution in narrative form cannot entirely overturn the aesthetic heritage accumulated over millennia. What can be achieved is to shift the national sense of beauty into a global context. As for modernism in Japanese novels, it often subtly conveys cultural sentiments of bygone eras, reminding one of the lost samurai and the melancholic townspeople.