Japanese Literary Giants Usher in a New Era of Japanese Literature

Name: Japanese Literary Giants Usher in a New Era of Japanese Literature
Author: I Am A Molotov Cocktail

by I Am A Molotov Cocktail

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After the Meiji Restoration, the neon cultural circle also began to absorb advanced Western culture. While criticizing traditional neon novels, it also absorbed a large number of advanced Western theories. Finally, after fully absorbing the nutrients of Western works, Japan's first literary theory was established, namely realism. With the development of neon literature, naturalism, an extension of realism, dominated the entire neon literary world and was regarded as literary orthodoxy by the emperor. A large number of naturalistic authors flooded into neon universities and cultural magazines all over the country; naturalism soon became an academic school, and gained a monopoly position in the literary criticism circle, mastering the right to evaluate literature. However, as the naturalistic theory became rigid, a writer's inheritance gradually became the main criterion for measuring his status in the literary world. Writers with better teachers can easily receive invitations from top literary magazines on the recommendation of their teachers. As for the quality of his work, it is often overlooked. And those writers who have poor training or do not meet naturalistic standards have no chance of being published. As a result, naturalism has declined in the neon literary world, and criticism of the current situation in the neon literary world has become increasingly louder. The neon literary world urgently needs a new leader to lead literature to new development...