So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers Donald Keene
A collection of diary entries by Japanese writers during
World War II. Disappointed that it isn’t
just the entries. There is far more commentary by Keene, and diary entries are
used as examples of what he’s saying, though what he says is not bad. As he says
at one point, “The diary is filled with brilliant passages that cry out for quotation.”
Really wanted to read those passages and the diaries themselves. Also, Keane organizes
the sections by topics that often seem of secondary importance. Not a bad book,
but disappointing for me.
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