A SHEEP'S SONG; A WRITER'S REMINISCENCES OF JAPAN AND THE WORLD.

Kato, Shuichi, 1919-2008. Chia-ning Chang (translator, annotator).

ISBN 10: 0520219791 / ISBN 13: 9780520219793

Edité par Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1999., 1999

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xxxvi, 470, [1] pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Stiff paper covers, negligible bumping at rear cover's bottom fore-edge corner. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. A near fine copy. ISBN 0520219791.

N° de réf. du vendeur PXZP-12650

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A SHEEP'S SONG; A WRITER'S REMINISCENCES OF JAPAN AND THE WORLD.
• Éditeur: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1999.
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0520219791
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780520219793
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey from the militarist era of prewar Japan to the dynamic postwar landscapes of Japan and Europe. This fluid translation of A Sheep's Song captures Kato's unique voice and brings his insightful interpretation of modern Japan and its tumultuous relations with the outside world to English-speaking readers for the first time.

Kato describes his youthful interest in the natural sciences as well as in Japanese and Western literatures-from the Man'yoshu to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Baudelaire, Valéry, and Proust. Turning to the rise of Japanese fascism in the late 1930s, he recalls his rebellion against the jingoistic political atmosphere of the time. The chapters on the war and its aftermath include experiences of Hiroshima shortly after the bombing and the often tragicomic encounters between the defeated Japanese nation and the American Occupation forces. Throughout, memories of his wide-ranging literary career and broad experiences in Europe as a student, traveler, and cultural observer are punctuated by his unique perspectives on the relation between imagination, art, and politics.

A postscript written especially for the English-language edition discusses the Vietnam War, the subsequent transformation of Japan, the cultures and societies of Europe, the United States, and China, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

À propos de l?auteur

Critic, novelist, literary historian, and dramatist Kato Shuichi is Guest Professor of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University. He is author of many works, including a three-volume History of Japanese Literature (1979-83) and Form, Style, Tradition: Reflections on Japanese Art and Society (1971) and coauthor of Six Lives, Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan (1979). Chia-ning Chang is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Davis.