The I-Novel

“The I-novel or shishōsetsu, one direct outgrowth of Naturalism and the Japanese adaptation of the Ich-Roman “is a mode of story-telling in which the protagonist, the thinly disguised (if at all) author, describes his or her own experience, preferably of a disreputable sort, presumably with unadorned honesty, even as the names, professions, and other details may be altered. What counts, in any case, is experience. ”

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Excerpt From Persona Hiroaki Sato