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A sophisticated and compelling study that reveals the crucial rhetorical role narrative reflexivity plays in the fiction of several major figures of modern and contemporary Japanese literature. Weinberger not only provides fresh perspectives on important individual novels, but also makes a significant contribution to ongoing discussions of the ethical claims of fiction in a globalized literary environment. * Dennis Washburn, Burlington Northern Foundation Professor in Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, USA * Against a critical tradition that has read Mori Ogai, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and Murakami Haruki as having failed to conquer their personal demons and live up to the ethical and political challenges of their respective historical moments, Weinberger writes with a refreshing and radical premise: that these Japanese writers have something vital to teach us and that it is the critic’s job to elucidate what that is. The result is a brilliant, full-throated articulation of the value of literary reflection on real-world problems. * J. Keith Vincent, Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Boston University, USA *

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Christopher Weinberger is Associate Professor of Comparative World Literature and founder and Program Coordinator of Video Game Studies at San Francisco State University, USA. He teaches narrative and literary theories in Japanese and Anglophone traditions and has contributed to Novel and Fault Lines of Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2018), among other publications. He is currently writing for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms.

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