La patria degli altri nella letteratura di Ogai, Soseki e Kafu

Three Japanese writers in three different conutry – Germany, England, United States – experienced the idea of others, as country and people, as well as the concept of themselves considered ‘other’. To live the otherness, the three writers needed to borrow, and in a way to learn, from Europe the concept of individualism, without which one can perceive the otherness as a country and not as an individual. Their experience and their novells represents a prelude to modern and contemporary trasnational japanese writers and, to use the Japanese word, to the ekkyobungaku, the “literature that exceeds the boundaries’.