Kafu, Nagai

Nagai Kafu (1879-1959) was a Japanese novelist whose translated works include "Autumn Wind and Other Stories," "American Stories," and "During the Rains and Flowers in the Shades: Two Novellas,"

Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese language and literature at Middlebury College. He is the author of "Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu" and coeditor of "Oe and Beyond: Studies in Contemporary Japanese Literature," He has translated works by Oe Kenzaburo, Murakami Ryu, Yu Miri, and Kirino Natsuo. His translation of Yoko Ogawa's "Pregnancy Diary" appeared in "The New Yorker"...