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Shōsetsu shinzui

essay by Tsubouchi Shōyō

Also known as: “The Essence of the Novel”

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significance in Japanese literature

In Japanese literature: Introduction of Western literature
His critical essay Shōsetsu shinzui (1885–86; The Essence of the Novel) greatly influenced the writing of subsequent fiction not only because of its emphasis on realism as opposed to didacticism but because Shōyō, a member of the samurai class, expressed the conviction that novels, hitherto despised by the…
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