Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Award ひらばやしたいこぶんがくしょう
Edition 24 (1996)
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2 peopleA Sweet Life is Kazuya Fukuda's collection of literary criticism on writers and works including Kojin Karatani, Haruki Murakami, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Junichiro Tanizaki, and the Man'yoshu. Centered on an aesthetic will that refuses conformity to social morality, it explores the possibilities of life opened by literature.
Moving through literature, an aesthetic will cuts open a truth of this world.
203 pages
literary criticismaestheticismHaruki Murakamimodern Japanese literatureaffirmation of life
A fiction collection by Ryu Murakami shaped by cinematic scenes and urban sensibility.
A fiction collection by Ryu Murakami shaped by cinematic scenes and urban sensibility.
267 pages
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