Escape from the Wasteland
Auteur: Susan Jolliffe Napier
Nombre de pages: 279 pages
ISBN: 1684170117, 9781684170111
Edition: BRILL
Date de publication: BRILL
Description: 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.