Donald Keene

Donald Keene en 2002.

Donald Keene, né le 6 juin 1922, est un japonologue américain. Il a traduit de nombreuses œuvres de la littérature japonaise. Il est professeur émérite à l’Université Columbia.

Publications

Traductions

• The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance (Taylor's Foreign Pr, 1951)
• The Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1961; )
• Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko (Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1967)
• Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play (Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1971)
• Mishima Yukio, Five Modern No Plays (Tuttle, 1967)
• Mishima Yukio, After the Banquet (Random House Inc, January 1, 1973)
• Basho, The Narrow Road to Oku (Kodansha Amer Inc, April 1, 1997)
• Kawabata Yasunari, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Kodansha Amer Inc, September 1, 1998)
• Kōbō Abe, Three Plays (Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1997)
• Donald Keene & Oda Makoto, The Breaking Jewel, Keene, Donald (trans) (Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2003
• Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human (New Directions, 1958)
• Dazai Osamu, The Setting Sun(Tuttle, 1981)
• Yamamoto Yuzo, One Hundred Sacks of Rice: A Stage Play(Nagaoka City Kome Hyappyo Foundation, 1998)

Éditions

• Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Grove Pr, March 1, 1960)
• Anthology of Chinese Literature: From the 14th Century to the Present Day (co-editor with Cyril Birch) (Grove Pr, June 1, 1987)
• Love Songs from the Man'Yoshu (Kodansha Amer Inc, August 1, 2000)

En anglais

• The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance (Taylor's Foreign Pr, 1951)
• Japanese Literature an Introduction for Western Readers (Grove Pr, June 1, 1955)
• Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology (Grove Pr, June 1, 1956)
• Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 1961)
• Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1961)
• Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 (Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 1969)
• Twenty Plays of the No Theatre (Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1970)
• World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 (Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1976) -(Second book in his "A History of Japanese Literature" series)
• Some Japanese Portraits (Kodansha Amer Inc, March 1, 1979)
• Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era (Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1987)
  • Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era; Poetry, Drama, Criticism (Holt Rinehart & Winston, April 1, 1984) -(Fourth book in his "A History of Japanese Literature" series)
  • Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era; Fiction (Holt Rinehart & Winston, April 1, 1984) -(Third book in his "A History of Japanese Literature" series)
• The Pleasures of Japanese Literature (Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1988; ISBN 0-231-06736-4)
• Donald Keene with Herbert E. Plutschow, Introducing Kyoto (Kodansha Amer Inc, April 1, 1989)
• Travelers of a Hundred Ages : The Japanese As Revealed Through 1, 000 Years of Diaries (Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1989)
• Modern Japanese Novels and the West (Umi Research Pr, July 1, 1989)
• No and Bunraku: Two Forms of Japanese Theatre (Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1990)
• Appreciations of Japanese Culture (Kodansha Amer Inc, April 1, 1991
• Donald Keene with Ooka Makoto, The Colors of Poetry: Essays in Classic Japanese Verse (Katydid Books, May 1, 1991
• Travelers of a Hundred Ages (Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1992)
• Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1993) -(First book in his "A History of Japanese Literature" series)
• On Familiar Terms: A Journey Across Cultures (Kodansha Amer Inc, January 1, 1994)
• Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1995)
• The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja: A Donald Keene Anthology (Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1996
• On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures (Kodansha Amer Inc, April 1, 1996)
• Donald Keene with Anne Nishimura & Frederic A. Sharf, Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meija Era, 1868-1912 (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, May 1, 2001)
• Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 compiled by Donalde Keen, Wm. Theodore De Bary, George Tanabe and Paul Varley (Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 2001)
• Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 (Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 2002)
• Donald Keene with Lee Bruschke-Johnson & Ann Yonemura, Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne Van Biema Collection (Univ of Washington Pr, September 1, 2002)
• Five Modern Japanese Novelists (Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 2002)
• Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 2003)
• Frog In The Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841 (Asia Perspectives),(Columbia Univ. Press, 2006)

Prix et distinctions

• Prix de littérature de Yomiuri (Yomiuri bunbakusho) (1985)
• Grand prix japonais de littérature (1985)
• Prix de la culture asiatique de Fukuoka (1991)
• Ordre de la Culture(2008)

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