Shiga Hero

Name: Shiga Hero
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ISBN: 9780226756202

ISBN-10: 0226756203

ISBN-13: 9780226756202

Edition: 1979

Authors: William F. Sibley

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Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), one of Japan's foremost modern writers, is known primarily for his spare, intense short stories. Highly subjective, Shiga's work belongs to the genre of "personal" or "psychological" fiction; much of his raw material is rooted in his own inner experience. His incisive style and disregard of the formal aspects of fiction present a vision of the world that is at times "primitive" and archetypal. Shiga relentlessly explores the vision through the viewpoint of a single central character who appears in almost all his works. Sibley unifies Shiga's sparse, fragmented narratives by reconstructing the cyclical biography of this imaginary hero. Through an analysis of…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/1979
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 230
Size: 6.06" wide x 10.94" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Preface Introduction 1. The Shiga Hero's Childhood 2. Adolescence 3. A Riddle and a Dream 4. Ripeness Translations For Grandmother (Soba no tame, 1911) Seibei and Gourds (Seibei to hyotan, 1912) Manazuru (1920) The Razor (Kamisori, 1910) The Kidnapping (Ko o nusumu hanashi, 1914) An Accident (Dekigoto, 1913) Under an Ashen Moon (Haiiro no tsuki, 1945) Night Fires (Takibi, 1920) At Kinosaki (Kinosaki nite, 1917) Reincarnation (Tensei, 1924) Notes Principal Works Cited Index