I would give Oe's Silent Cry a read. I think he mostly stopped writing(?) after his Nobel. and if you're interested in a japanese Gogol-like author, Kobo Abe i

I would give Oe's Silent Cry a read. I think he mostly stopped writing(?) after his Nobel. and if you're interested in a japanese Gogol-like author, Kobo Abe is generally alot of fun Another huge standard in Japanese translated into english in Yukio Mishima. sea of fertility tetralogy is worth reading. like most readers I have kind of mixed and weird impression of the author himself. Kauzo Ishiguro is really accessible to the western reader, maybe too much so if you're looking for the alien aspect, but I do like his work alot