Gunzo Newcomer Long Novel Award
序章
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.
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
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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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