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...part of which was used by Jerome Robbins for a hit ballet called Glass Pieces, has sold 115,000 copies worldwide since its 1982 release. In Cannes recently, Glass and two others shared the prize for Best Artistic Contribution for their work on Director Paul Schrader's new film Mishima, about the Japanese novelist and warrior manque; Glass also scored Godfrey Reggio's 1982 vision of environmental apocalypse, Koyaanisqatsi. Currently the composer is finishing a new opera based on Novelist Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, to be premiered in Holland in the spring...
...locked into the industry's tradition-bound system of slow advancement, where experience is rewarded but rarely offered. "This brutal apprenticeship has long controlled the Japanese studio system," notes American Writer-Director Paul Schrader, who will soon go to Japan to film a biography of Novelist Yukio Mishima. "I think we're finally starting to see that system break down...
...Mishima's abrasive career ended in seppuku (disembowelment, then decapitation by a member of his private "army"). Kawataba and Dazai were not given to such self-dramatization, but they too died by their own hands. Indeed, it is no mere verbal swagger to define contemporary Japanese writing as a matter of life and death. In the '70s one Tokyo scholarly journal devoted an entire issue to "The Writer and Suicide." There is a death wish operating through Japanese literature. Says Masao Miyoshi, a Japanese lit erary scholar (Accomplices of Silence...
...took almost a thousand years for The Tale of Genji to reach the West. In this century, the works of Kawataba, Abe, Mishima and their colleagues took only a few years to reach across two oceans. Today Japanese literature, like everything and everyone else in the country, is in a greater hurry. Translations are being feverishly prepared; America and Europe will see some 50 unfamiliar novels and histories in the next year. Whether those volumes make their way into foreign mainstreams remains to be seen, read and discussed. What is certain is that Japanese literature, which has earned only...