by jkvincent | Jun 11, 2022 | novels |
We finished Proust Volume Two. We all laughed out loud when Marcel tried to kiss Albertine, his head swelled to contain the whole universe and then some. We loved the faces changing over time, successions of selves, faces viewed by other selves, how the girls are the...
by jkvincent | Feb 21, 2021 | novels |
My copy of Arthur Waley’s translation of the Tale of Genji is the single-volume Modern Library Edition from 1960 and it’s falling apart. I’m teaching it this semester so I was poking around on abebooks.com the other day looking for a used copy in better shape. Waley’s...
by jkvincent | Jul 17, 2019 | haiku, novels |
I’m happy to report that the volume on the Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki, which I have co-edited with Reiko Abe Auestad and Alan Tansman has been published as the latest issue of Josai University’s Review of Japanese Culture and Society. The publication was...
by jkvincent | Apr 17, 2019 | novels |
A Japanese Classic Illuminated Portrait-Icon of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu zu) Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691) Held at Ishiyama-dera Temple, Otsu, Shiga Prefecture (credit Wikimedia commons) I am writing today because I want to share my excitement about the stunning...
by jkvincent | Jan 3, 2019 | novels |
Congratulations to my good friend Dawn Lawson, who has just won the Kyoko Selden Prize for her translation of Nakajima Shōen’s 1889 novel, A Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion (『山間の名花』). Nakajima (1861-1901), also known as Kishida Toshiko, was one of...
