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Gunzo Newcomer Long Novel Award

序章

今井公雄

Josho is a novel by Kimio Imai and a winner of the third Gunzo Newcomer Novel Award. As its title suggests, it has the stance of an opening movement toward a larger story, placing personal interior life and the tensions of its time at the starting point of the fiction.

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Work Information

Taking the idea of a beginning as its title, the novel places the tension between an individual and an era at the threshold of a longer narrative.

Josho won the Gunzo Newcomer Novel Award after its 1980 appearance and was published by Kodansha as a standalone book the following year. Publicly available plot information is limited, but the author's later recollection presents it as the first move toward a planned novelistic project broad enough to encompass the twentieth century. The title, meaning an opening chapter or prologue, signals that ambition.

Review Summaries

  • Award records place the work among the selected winners of the newcomer novel prize. Its later publication as a standalone volume confirms that it reached readers as a book rather than remaining only a submitted manuscript.

Book Information

Publisher
講談社
Published
1981-04-01
Pages
230 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784061183636
ISBN-10
406118363X
Price
5176 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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