Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo

Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo
ISBN-10
067426181X
ISBN-13
9780674261815
Category
Japanese fiction
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Harvard Univ Asia Center
Author
Susan Jolliffe Napier

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. Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations.

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