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ByStephen Snyder

Fictions of Desire

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“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” –P.J. O’Rourke

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The literary career of Nagai Kafu is generally seen as an act of nostalgia, the quintessential return to Japan in the form of a long search for the traditional past in a rapidly modernizing Tokyo. Kafu is best known as a lyrical writer of elegies to a vanished Tokyo, whose work is stylistically rich yet lacks intellectual depth.