Author : Susan Jolliffe Napier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684170111
Escape from the Wasteland by Susan Jolliffe Napier Pdf
Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Susan Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio’s and Kenzaburo’s fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer’s position in the tradition of Japanese literature.