Ryunosuke fukui biography of williams
Ryunosuke fukui biography of williams college.
Submitted by Noboru Yamashita.
In this essay I will take up William Faulkner and three Japanese novelists: Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA (1892–1927), Osamu DAZAI (1909–1948), and Haruki MURAKAMI (1949– ).
Akutagawa was slightly older than Faulkner and died young.
Ryunosuke fukui biography of williams
Dazai is roughly a contemporary: Faulkner’s mature years are mainly 1930s–1940s, and so are Dazai’s. Murakami is writing vigorously now and is expected to win the Nobel Prize in the very near future. These writers are of different generations, but all of them are well-known as the representatives of each period.
Although their concerns and ways of writing are different, they occasionally employ similar techniques, and they depict their conflicts with their times and societies and themselves.
Faulkner and Akutagawa
William Faulkner and Akutagawa Ryunosuke never met.
Akutagawa majored in English Literature at Tokyo Imperial University in 1913 and died in 1927. Around this time Faulkner began