Narrating the Self

About this book

In an article written in 1950, Terada Toru (1915- ), a critic and scholar of French literature, astutely noted that "watakushi /shi-shosetsu is no more than a formal designation in that we can never tell what is contained in it. . . .The term forces the reader to confront a word whose resonance is much greater than what it designates, the meaning of which is only vaguely understood in common usage."