Article: Youth and Other Stories.

Thomas Rimer's contribution to Youth and Other Stories lies in collecting Mori Ogai's short pieces from obscure places and commissioning translations of others, as well as bringing Ogai's third and last novel before the English-reading public. The two literary lions of early twentieth-century Japan were Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) and Mori Ogai (1862-1922). We have long had admirable translations of Soseki's major works, including his classic Kokoro (1914); now Ogai's are available for comparison, particularly the novel Youth (1910-11).

Soseki studied in England, and his work in the English tradition has attracted more translators and critics than has Ogai, whose ...

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