{"id":256546,"date":"2007-10-01T19:48:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/01\/dostoevsky-in-21st-century-japan\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:20","slug":"dostoevsky-in-21st-century-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/01\/dostoevsky-in-21st-century-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dostoevsky in 21st Century Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200710a.htm#ap4\">Literary Saloon<\/a> commented on this earlier, but apparently the new translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov<\/i> is a bit hit in Japan. <\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At a lecture in Tokyo in August, Kameyama explored possible reasons for the boom, saying that &#8220;Karamazov&#8221; depicts the &#8220;humble existence&#8221; of human beings who find themselves at the mercy of a chaotic world. &#8220;This bears similarity to the modern world under globalization. We live in an era when we are wedged between huge tragedies such as terrorist attacks and Internet-based information that we read with a guilty conscience,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary Saloon commented on this earlier, but apparently the new translation of The Brothers Karamazov is a bit hit in Japan. Why? At a lecture in Tokyo in August, Kameyama explored possible reasons for the boom, saying that &#8220;Karamazov&#8221; depicts the &#8220;humble existence&#8221; of human beings who find themselves at the mercy of a chaotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,6846,6856,1646],"class_list":["post-256546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-dostoevsky","tag-japan","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328026,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256546\/revisions\/328026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}