I riflessi della letteratura occidentale sulla letteratura giapponese del novecento

The article aims to give an overview of the different ways in which Japanese writers of the 20th century dealt with the strong western influences that in the period between Taishō and Shōwa era brought about the birth of Japanese Modernism, a literary strand that brings together two great literary currents, the Shinkankakuha (School of Neosensimo) and Shinshinrigakuha (School of Neopsychology), whose main exponents are Yokomitsu Riichi (1898-1947), Itō Sei (1905-1969) and the future Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972).