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November 30, 2009

JAPN411 meeting 23

There was a quiz, mostly on onomatopea like "ガヤガヤ". Failure as usual...

A classmate did a presentation on Yukio Mishima, including a photograph of his severed head exhibited somewhere. Mrs. Bomberger tried to impress upon us how famous Mr. Mishima was and what genius he was as well. I've never heard of him until now.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at 04:38 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 I knew the name, the basic story of his death, and that his work was highly regarded, but not the details. I'd gotten the impression that most foreigners wouldn't enjoy his work as much as, say, Soseki or Akutagawa.

Speaking of which, have you made much progress in the Tsutsui collection you picked up a while back? I've read several of his short stories now, and found him alternately amusing and baffling.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at December 01, 2009 08:40 AM (2XtN5)

2 Sorry, no. It still sits on the shelf.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at December 01, 2009 05:07 PM (/ppBw)

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