"Dark Pictures" and Other Stories: Volume 30 Contributor(s): Noma, Hiroshi (Author), Raeside, James (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0939512025 ISBN-13: 9780939512027 Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2000 Click for more in this series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies (Hardback) |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 00034612 |
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies (Hardback) |
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.32" W x 9.29" L (0.91 lbs) 186 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/07/2000 pg. 78 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Noma Hiroshi (1915-91) was a prominent postwar novelist who engaged deeply with French modernism and contributed to left-wing thought throughout his life. The short stories that Noma Hiroshi produced in the years of confusion and self-questioning after World War II struck a deep chord in his readers. In the three stories contained here--"Dark Pictures," "A Feeling of Disintegration," and "A Red Moon in Her Face"--the main characters are all young men who have lived through the war but have emerged far from unscathed. The "dark pictures" of the title refer to paintings and engravings by Brueghel, which the protagonist and his friends had viewed together. The miseries depicted in Brueghel's work seem in retrospect to encapsulate all the miseries the main character has suffered since seeing his friends: persecution, self-doubt, sexual anxiety, warfare, imprisonment, bombardment, and the miseries of life in Japan after the defeat. The other two stories are set in the postwar world of black marketeers and bombsites, but they too concern young men whose universal anxieties about sexual desires and their place in the world are overshadowed by memories of the brutality of war. |
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