"Moll Flanders", in With Eye and Ear (1970), p. 13
“The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it. That such a modern work should have been written in the eleventh century is a miracle, and as a miracle the work is widely known abroad.”
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (1969)
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