https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Novel
I once heard the story that when jazz drummer Buddy Rich was being admitted to a hospital, the nurse at the front desk asked him if he had any allergies. ‘Only to country and western music,’ he replied. In my case, my only allergy is to Japan’s so-called ‘I novel’ – the form of autobiographical writing that has been at the forefront of Japan’s modern fiction since the turn of the twentieth century. (introduction, haruki murakami)
Rubin, Jay (ed). The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (Penguin Classics Hardcover) (p. xi). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle edition.
