Best modernism literary criticism books according to redditors

It's the Japanese modernists for me, both poets and novelists—so much is so so good, and quite a bit has been translated, but good luck finding anything assigned outside of an upper-level Japanese lit class.

Novels:

• Hayashi Fumiko—Diary of a Vagabond) (1927)

• Yokomitsu Riichi—Shanghai (1931)

• Yasunari Kawabata—The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1930)
• Kobayashi Takiji—The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle (1929)

Short Stories:

• Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913–1938

• For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature

Books of Poetry:

• The Collected Poems of Sagawa Chika
• The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo

Mary Ann Caws' lengthy introduction to the 1988 edition of Breton's Mad Love gives a good rundown of Dali's conflict with and eventual excommunication from the formal Surrealist school, though heavily weighted in Breton's favor. You can almost certainly find a better text, but it's short and sums the story up neatly without being too dry, and I have the book so it was the first thing I thought of. :)

I think it's ridiculous to say Dali was a shitty painter or not interesting or what the hell ever sbalz was raving about, but he's right that Dali didn't invent or even particularly contribute much to Surrealism, despite being famous for it.

If you're reading Checkhov, I highly recommend a book called "40 stories." It's a book of short stories, but they're in chronological order from when they were written, so you can really see his development as a writer. The earlier ones are shorter and simpler, but by the end you can tell he's just become a master of his craft.

https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Stories-Vintage-Classics-Chekhov-ebook/dp/B004J4X2XA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504586495&sr=8-1&keywords=chekhov+40+stories