Shinchosha Literary Award しんちょうしゃぶんがくしょう
Edition 10 (1963)
Winners
1 peopleIyana Kanji is Jun Takami's novel centered on Shiro Kashiba, an anarchist after the Great Kanto Earthquake, tracing terrorism, fascism, colonial violence, and a society sliding into war. From a postwar perspective, it follows how a longing for revolution twists into violence and self-destruction.
The heat of revolution gradually turns into a dark impulse that consumes life itself.
424 pages
anarchismterrorismthe eve of warthought and violence