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Literary, too literary

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This collection centers on the controversy between Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, which unfolded in the 1920s in the pages of the magazine Kaizō. The writers engaged in a lively and intense debate about the nature of plot, poetic spirit, and the limits of realism. For them, literature became a means of understanding the divide between East and West, tradition and modernity: the book shows how Japanese culture entered a new era not through imitation, but through an internal debate about the form, morality, and sensibility of writing. The discussion between Akutagawa and Tanizaki does not answer the question of "what literature should be." It captures a rare moment when culture, represented by literature, is still able to pause and ask on what grounds it demands trust at all. The book concludes with a series of lyrical essays by Tanizaki, written in response to Akutagawa's suicide and offering a deeper understanding of the relationship between the writers.
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