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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Fiction</title>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve (1860). One of my current reading projects is to catch up on Turgenev, whose work was enormously influential on Meiji Japan. This novel, for example, is cited repeatedly in Tayama Katai&#8217;s &#8220;Futon&#8221; (1907), a landmark in modern Japanese fiction. I can see the attraction On the Eve held for Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Current Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/28/the-current-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few things I&#8217;ve been reading as of late: Jim Harrison, True North (Grove Press, 2004). I&#8217;m a belated convert to Harrison&#8217;s fiction: I&#8217;ve known about him since a girlfriend in high school recommended him, but only started reading his work in the last few years. I inadvertently read Returning to Earth, the 2007 sequel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2011/12/27/revisiting-natsume-sosekis-theory-of-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the University of Tokyo&#8217;s Center for Philosophy hosted a symposium on &#8220;Globalizing Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature,&#8221; commemorating the publication of the English translation of Bungakuron (1907), Sōseki&#8217;s remarkable attempt to construct a fully scientific theory of &#8220;literature&#8221; complete with mathematical formulas and graphs, one that was supposed to be valid at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franzen&#8217;s New Novel</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/08/franzens-new-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like you, I&#8217;m currently reading Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s Freedom. (You are, aren&#8217;t you?). I have to reserve judgment on the novel as a whole until I finish reading it&#8211;and I&#8217;m a sssslllloooowwww reader these days&#8211;but in general you can color me impressed. As he did in The Corrections, Franzen presents a painfully life-like portrait of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of the Devil</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/09/01/speaking-of-the-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my reading recently I&#8217;ve been haunted by the devil. For example, he shows up, albeit ambiguously, in Charles Baxter&#8217;s fine 2008 novel, The Soul Thief. The narrative, written with Baxter&#8217;s usual intelligence and style, traces the life on one &#8220;Nathaniel Mason,&#8221; as told in the first person&#8211;or, perhaps not. It might be that Nathaniel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Early Summer Reading List</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/17/the-early-summer-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been reading lately. How &#8217;bout you? Ugaya Hiromichi, J-Poppu to wa nani ka: Kyodaika suru ongaku sangyo (What is J-Pop? The expanding music industry, 2005). A provocative study of the music business in Japan since the late 1980s, when marketing executives coined the word &#8220;J-Pop&#8221; to suggest the appearance of a Japanese [...]]]></description>
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