Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature

Art versus nature, the literary work and the author, the literary work and the reader, structure and style, and the purpose of literature are the main subjects treated in a study of eight leading writers of modern Japan Natsume Soseki -- Nagai Kafu -- Tanizaki Jun'ichiro -- Shiga Naoya -- Akutagawa Ryunosuke -- Dazai Osamu -- Kawabata Yasunari -- Mishima Yukio. Makoto Ueda. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [269]-276.