20th century Japanese literature is very interesting. Its authors are people who are living through, or have lived through a society growing from a fairly ratio

20th century Japanese literature is very interesting. Its authors are people who are living through, or have lived through a society growing from a fairly rational and proud Westernized and modernized society into an increasingly desperate, fanatical, and repressive one, before having their entire society and common values do an about turn and figuring out how to live in a new, contradictory world beyond their wildest expectations. Among their most celebrated are authors who think of themselves as very broken people.