De la Turgheniev și Dostoievski la primul roman modern japonez
From Turgenev and Dostoevsky to the First Modern Japanese Novel

Summary/Abstract: Modern Japanese literature stems from the initial attempts at translating Russian authors towards the end of the 19th century. Novel character types, narrative perspectives, terminology, and writing styles were gradually adopted and blended into what would constitute the first Japanese novel, written by the first Japanese-Russian translator Futabatei Shimei, who was in awe of evergreen titans such as Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Turgenev and many more. A breakthrough at the time for the Japanese literature, which had previously shunned fiction prose for poetry, Shimei’s lengthy novel „Ukigumo” would later on inspire young aspiring writers to dabble in prose, and derive ideas and plots from foreign authors in a bid to put Japanese literature on the map. Apart from this, his writing style would further lay the cornerstone of what is nowadays a greatly simplified Japanese language.

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