Richard Bowring

Richard Bowring Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at Cambridge, is the author of a study of Murasaki’s novel The Tale of Genji.

Letter

Literary Theory

17 October 1985

SIR: I should like to thank you for a temperate reply to what may have seemed a somewhat intemperate letter (Letters, 24 July). I am also grateful to Anthony Thwaite for revealing the source of the article in question, although his Japanese leaves a little to be desired (Eigo Seinen means ‘English Youth’, not ‘English Studies’). The explanation of your motives does, however, raise some interesting...

Fan-de-Siècle

Brigid Brophy, 6 October 1983

A small ad in Private Eye seeks a companion ‘sexy, feminine and discrete’. Siamese twins, I suppose, need not bother to apply. It is harder to divine why this translation of...

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