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This page introduces popular literature from outside Japan, but translated into Japanese. These are full length books that may be enjoyable to prior readers familiar with the stories. Unless otherwise stated translation work was done by Murakami Haruki
Translated Short Stories
村上春樹 (1949-) is a popular contemporary Japanese novelist who also have been actively translating American literature into Japanese. The list below are a few examples of short stories Murakami has translated.
Sudden Fiction by Call Number: PS648.S5 S8162 1994Publication Date: 1994Includes 70 American short short stories by Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, and others.
Sample text is taken from page 16.
英雄を謳うまい(えいゆうをうたうまい) by Call Number: PS3553.A7894 N616 2008Publication Date: 2008Translation of Raymond Carver's short stories, essays, poems, reviews, etc.
Sample text is taken from page 38.
Popular American Literature
キャッチャー．イン．ザ．ライ = The Catcher in The Rye by Call Number: PS3537.A426 C3162 2003Publication Date: 2003Translation of J.D Salinger's most popular novel. A staple of reading popular for adolescents across America. Sample text is from page 175.
冬の夢 by Call Number: PS3511.I9 W56163 2011Publication Date: 2011This book include five stories by Scott Fitzgerald who is considered as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He was also a member of the "Lost Generation" of 20s. The title piece is "Winter Dreams," considered as his "finest" story. The following example is from page 146
マディソン郡の橋 by Call Number: PS3573.A4347 B75162 1993Publication Date: 1993Robert James Wallers first novel translated by Kiyoshi Muramatsu. A romance novel set in the 60's it tells a story within the surroundings of the same county as the title. The example is page 110.
European Translated Literature
完訳グリム童話集 by Call Number: PT921 .G6216 2008Publication Date: 2008Grimm's Fairy Tales stories translated into Japanese. The original text was written by a pair of German brothers after realizing their fascination in Fairy tales. The example is page 192
ロビンソン漂流記 by Call Number: PZ49.31.D37 Ro 1995Publication Date: 1995The Japanese translated work of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. An English novel said to be one of the first in England and originally published in 1719. It is a realistic fictional novel on castaway Robinson Crusoe. THe example is page 126.
