Escape from the Wasteland
Auteur: Susan Jolliffe Napier
Nombre de pages: 258 pages
ISBN: 067426181X, 9780674261815
Edition: Harvard Univ Asia Center
Date de publication: Harvard Univ Asia Center
Description: Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and the ever-disturbing Mishima Yukio have explored twentieth-century Japanese alienation with an unsparing eye and savage humor. In Escape from the Wasteland, Susan J. Napier examines their vivid and often perverse depictions of sex, impotence, emperor worship, and violence. For new readers of Oe and Mishima, this is an indispensable guide. For critics and scholars, it is the benchmark study.