why is the Japanese literary culture so far above all other Asians?

Japanese is boring as shit and they have a generic scene for every situation of their dumb literally doing the same shit everyday lives

Japan developed a bourgeois literary scene in the 17th century

>>24548104 (OP)
lmao what fucking book is this

>>24548193
I read like 5 words and I don't even need to double check, it's 100% Bakemonogatari.

>>24548201
I don't think non whites have souls but I used to think Japs were partial exceptions.

Good literature and good art in general do a few things; they inspire us, they teach us, and they push us to strive towards our higher values. Decadent art does the opposite, it distracts us, to breaks our focus, and enslaves us to our lowest pleasures.

>>24548104 (OP)
>phonetic simplified script to incorporate loan words and coin neologisms readily

Mountainous sea people, high neoteny, highest IQ— they mitigated the burden of moon runes. And when you take propriety to a telepathic degree of observance, saying the right thing at the right time in the right manner parlays into literary culture of necessity.

>>24548104 (OP)
It would be funny if those were three difft books

Japan would be the most soulless society ever if so many of them weren't perverts

>>24548104 (OP)
it's not, read more nigger.

>>24548104 (OP)
I’m confused, those samples of text clearly don’t seem to have been written by a Japanese person at all.

>>24548104 (OP)
Those appear to be extracts from Catcher in the Rye.

>>24548563
This is after he first meets Phoebe.

>>24548207
>only watches hollywood shit and anime

Read Old Capital and The sound of the mountain by Kawabata last week. The prose is very minimal, many scenes are dialogue driven. Less rich, but not necessarily bad

>>24549480
>Kawabata
I read Snow Country a month ago and I don't remember shit about it. It was that bad.

>>24549500
Old capital is also very forgettable.
The sound of the mountain is somewhat interesting, but the prose is very stunted. Will try reading the Thousand-something Crane next

being an island nation just makes you better

>>24548104 (OP)
>I like monogatari for the writing

>>24548104 (OP)
They know what they want.

>>24549553
Explain the UK then.

>>24549553
Explain Ireland

>>24549646
>>24550100
Why are you proving his point?

>>24549578
good to know that mishima is (supposedly) a BWC respecter

Translating lolicon to pedophile is technically and actually incorrect.
The translator and editing team should be ashamed.

>>24548207
>Good literature and good art in general do a few things; they inspire us, they teach us, and they push us to strive towards our higher values. Decadent art does the opposite, it distracts us, to breaks our focus, and enslaves us to our lowest pleasures.

>>24550319
who cares

>>24550319
How is it not pedophilia?

>>24550334
Me.

>>24550349
Pedophilia is sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children. Lolicon is a portmanteau of "lolita complex," which broadly means an affection for "lolita," which is a body type that overlaps pre AND post-pubescent, girlish bodies.

In the West, pedophilia has a connotation of "sexual abuse of children," while in Japan, lolicon has a connotation of "fond of a youthful body type." There's also the issue of the age of consent in Japan and the west broadly: prior to June 2023, the age of consent was 13 (it is now 16). Generally speaking, before that point, "lolicon" was perfectly legal. In the west, although the age of consent can be lower in certain jurisdictions and circumstances, generally the age of consent is 18, and there's been a recent broadening of the term "pedophilia" to include sex with girls 17 years, 364 days old.

The terms are semantically different enough that they shouldn't be used in translations in this way. It's lazy and technically and actually incorrect. The correct way to handle this would have been to keep the term "lolicon" and add a small footnote explaining what the term means. A worse way, avoiding a TL note, would be to write something like "but because I'm not attracted to children," etc etc. Wordy, but it would retain the meaning.

>>24550436
caring about this shit is peak slave morality

>>24550490
I'm autistic about translation. Deal with it.

>>24550436
ur an idiot, the aoc in most of the west and even most american states is 16

>>24550436
Funnily enough, 'lolicon' itself is a "western word"(created by Japs), clipping of 'lolita complex'.
Lolita, as we all know here, comes from Nabokov eponynous book and is a diminutive version of Dolores.
Dolores ->Lola ->Lo-lita

So, to summarise:
English book
Russian writer
Spanish name
Japanese term made of English
Huh?

>>24550436
>In the West, pedophilia has a connotation of "sexual abuse of children,"
That's a you problem, since the word pedophilia implies nothing of the sort; most instances of child sexual abuse are perpetrated by non-pedophiles, and pedophiles are actually underrepresented among convicted child molesters.

If your argument is about public perception, you're still wrong since most people who know the words consider them to be equivalent. The only people who make a distinction are a handful of autistic weebs like you that everyone else considers to be closeted pedophiles.

>>24548104 (OP)
fucking kek who writes like that?
Author trying hard to convince himself he's not a pedophile

>>24549578
His novel, "Sun and Steel" is dedicated to sucking white cock hard as steel and hot as sun.

>>24548207
>decadent art is bad!
I guess the French have no souls.

>>24552097
>I guess the French have no souls.
Speaking the truth anon.

>>24551748
I can sympathize, I've been in situations that made me wish I was gay so I could properly appreciate them.

>>24551752
Is that the meaning of the title? I never knew

>>24551748
It's a joke, anon...

>>24548104 (OP)
>localized
>a fucking LN
This is like an American picking up a random Ethiopian children's book and crying about how shit the plot is, all the while not being able to read a single word

>>24548104 (OP)
>not being a pedophile
>had I been a pedophile
>for a fifth grader, she felt surprisingly plum in my palm
>which means nothing to me because I'm not a pedophile
That guy is a pedophile.

>>24548104 (OP)
China is pretty good until Mao hits. Some good classic epics then later fun wuxia Kung Fu novels. There's that 3 Body sci fi but I haven't read it and might be entertaining slop

>>24554254
I've heard that China has put out some good surrealist works in the post-Mao era, which already sounds more interesting than Japan's whiny woe-is-me novels

>>24548207
>Good literature and good art in general do a few things; they inspire us, they teach us, and they push us to strive towards our higher values.
Such as things I like.
>Decadent art does the opposite, it distracts us, to breaks our focus, and enslaves us to our lowest pleasures.
Also known as, things (You) like.

>>24555159
tsmt

>>24555159

>>24555117
Yan Lianke?