An Undercurrent in Modern Japanese Literature

Autor:	Jun Etō
Rok vydání:	1964
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature History business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Art business Japanese literature media_common
Zdroj:	The Journal of Asian Studies. 23:433-445
ISSN:	1752-0401 0021-9118
DOI:	10.2307/2050763
Popis:	One often has the impression that young Japanese writers today are more eager to follow Western fads than to explore the Japanese tradition. Far from being devotees of Zen Buddhism, they are more likely to come to it through translations of Kerouac and other beatniks. In this paper, I propose to examine the cultural and psychological bases for this curious situation, which I suggest stem largely from the Japanese obsession with being up-to-date or Westernized. Young Japanese writers are never free from the pressure of the reading public that they should be au courant with the latest trend in Western literature, and this imposes such a heavy burden that it is no wonder that they have no time to go to a monastery and practice Zen.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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