Publisher's Synopsis
What do we read when we read Haruki Murakami? He is the most popular Japanese writer for the Nobel Prize in Literature and is almost synonymous with Japanese literature at the beginning of this century. How to interpret the multiverse constructed by his complicated symbols and allusions? "Ten Lectures by Masters of Japanese Literature". Using literature to explore "what is Japan". Yang Zhao takes you through the history of Japanese literature and thought from 10 classic writers.