Campus Novels (Book Guide) - Gaudy Night, Thinks ..., the Big U, Strangers and Brothers, the Tatami Galaxy, Moo, the Professor's House (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: Gaudy Night, Thinks ..., The Big U, Strangers and Brothers, The Tatami Galaxy, Moo, The Professor's House, The War Between the Tates, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Porterhouse Blue, Tomcat in Love, The History Man, Disgrace, Lucky Jim, On Beauty, Floating Down to Camelot, Starter for Ten, Indignation, Pnin, Changing Places, The Groves of Academe, Joker in the Pack, Giles Goat-Boy, A New Life. Excerpt: The Tatami Galaxy Yoj han Shinwa Taikei, literally "41/2 Tatami Mythological Chronicles") is a Japanese comedy-drama campus novel written by Tomihiko Morimi Morimi Tomihiko), originally published in December 2004 by Ohta Publishing ta Shuppan) in the tank bon format and later reissued in March 2008 by Kadokawa Shoten as a bunkoban. Its first-person narrator is an unidentified upperclassman at a Kyoto university reminiscing on the misadventures of his previous years of campus life, with each of the four chapters taking place in parallel universes in which he is enrolled in a different university society s kuru, "circle" in Japanese). As of January 2011 Korean, Traditional and Simplified Chinese but not English translations have been published. The novel is the basis of an 11-episode anime television series of the same name produced in (primarily) traditional animation at Madhouse under the direction of Masaaki Yuasa (making it the third such series following Kemonozume and Kaiba) which aired in the latter half of Fuji Television's noitaminA programming block at 25:15 to 25:45 from April 22 to July 1, 2010 (i.e. 01:15 to 01:45 from April 23 to July 2). In February 2011 it won the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize in the Animation Division, the first television program to do so, with the jury describing it in their justification as a "richly expressive work that turns the limitations of.