Meaning of I-novel | Babel Free

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A type of autofictional Japanese literary genre; a novel written in that genre.

countable, uncountable

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“Dazai's novels are largely fiction written in the I-novel spirit. What this means is that although the events described in the novels did not necessarily take place in Dazai's life, the novels as a whole essentially reflect the reality of his life and his feelings at the time, and as such they were accepted by critics and readers alike as confessional I-novels.”

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