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Donald Keene
Birth date: June 06, 1922
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Donald Keene's Books
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories - Yukio Mishima, Donald Keene, Ivan Morris, Geoffrey Sargent, Edward Seidensticker Essays in Idleness - Yoshida Kenkō, Donald Keene Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play - Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku, Namiki Senryū, Donald Keene Three Plays: Involuntary Homicide / The Green Stockings / The Ghost is Here - Kōbō Abe, Donald Keene Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (A History of Japanese Literature - Volume 1) - Donald Keene Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 - Donald Keene Five Modern No Plays - Yukio Mishima, Donald Keene World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Premodern Era - 1600-1867 (A History of Japanese Literature - Volume 2) - Donald Keene The Man Who Turned into a Stick: Three Related Plays - Kōbō Abe, Donald Keene Sources of Japanese Tradition (Volume I) - William Theodore de Bary, Ryusaku Tsunoda, Donald Keene Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre - Donald Keene, Royall Tyler Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan - Donald Keene So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers - Donald Keene The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene The Tales of Ise - Anonymous, Peter Macmillan, Donald Keene The Tale of Genji: Scenes from the World's First Novel (Illustrated Japanese Classics) - Murasaki Shikibu, Masayuki Miyata, Jakuchō Seitouchi, Donald Keene, H. Mack Horton, Ayako Watanabe, Michiko Hiraoka The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry - Jeffery Paine, Helen Vendler, Burton Raffel, Denise Levertov, Bei Dao, Perry Link, Donald Keene, Garrett Hongo, Carolyn Forché, Joseph Brodsky, Sven Birkerts, Edward Hirsch, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Anita Desai, Edward C. Dimock, Aga Shahid Ali The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) - Donald Keene Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 - Donald Keene Manyoshu - Anonymous, Donald Keene Manyoshu - Anonymous, Donald Keene
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The Tales of Ise - Anonymous, Peter Macmillan, Donald Keene
The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) - Donald Keene
The Manyoshu: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shink... The Manyoshu: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation of One Thousand Poems - Anonymous, William Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From t... Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Donald Keene
The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene
Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries - Donald Keene
No and Bunraku - Donald Keene
So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers - Donald Keene
The Narrow Road to Oku - Matsuo Bashō, Masayuki Miyata, Donald Keene
Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume One: From Earliest Times to 1600 - Donald Keene, William Theodore de Bary, George J. Tanabe
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SabrinaReads
SabrinaReads rated it 6 years ago
text No Longer Human
3.75
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Familiar Diversions
Familiar Diversions rated it 8 years ago
text No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, translated by Donald Keene
I’ll start this off with some content warnings. This book includes several suicide attempts (one successful), a main (POV) character who becomes an alcoholic and a drug addict and who is probably depressed, and several mentions of rape and child molestation. Most of these things aren’t described in ...
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Emad Attely [The Book Nerd]
Emad Attely [The Book Nerd] rated it 9 years ago
text The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
يا سلام يا سلام :)أجمل شيء في هذه القصة هي أنها ذكرتني بمسلسل كان ياما كان السوري القديم. القصة جميلة. تنفع أن تكون قصة ما قبل النوم للأطفال ..وللكبار أيضاً!
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Nicole~
Nicole~ rated it 11 years ago
text Five Modern Nō Plays by Yukio Mishima
Nō for Dummies First off, let me say that I started reading these plays nō-ing nothing about Kabuki or Nō theater, just that I have always admired Japanese dramatic arts even though I couldn't much understand it. It is like listening to Shakespeare for the first time, in high frequency.A little rese...
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Leopard
Leopard rated it 11 years ago
text 5 Modern Japanese Novelists , by Donald Keene
In 5 Modern Japanese Novelists (2003) Donald Keene (b. 1922) discusses some of the many Japanese authors with whom he had friendly relations: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, and Shiba Ryotaro. Though there is distinct overlap in this book with the more formal and ex...
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