Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era
Donald Keene
Paper, 698 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11439-4
$37.50
/ £22.00
May, 1999
Cloth, 698 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11438-7
$82.00
/ £48.00
"The publication of Dawn to the West . . . will do even more to establish modern Japanese literature as one of the major literatures of the world." — New York Times Book Review
Related Subjects
About the Author
Hailed in the New York Times Book Review as “the century’s leading expert on Japanese literature, as well as its most indefatigable translator,” Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author, editor, or translator of over thirty books of criticism and works of literature, including No and Bunraku, Twenty Plays of the No Theater, Major Plays of Chikamatsu, The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Three Plays by Kobo Abe, Modern Japanese Diaries, Essays in Idleness, andTravelers of a Hundred Ages (all published by Columbia).
top of page
