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白い屋形船,ブロンズの首 (講談社文芸文庫 かC 1)

Yomiuri Literary Award

白い屋形船,ブロンズの首 (講談社文芸文庫 かC 1)

Akatsuki Kambayashi

Shiroi Yakatabune represents Akira Uebayashi's autobiographical fictional world, written under the pressure of illness and physical disability. Collected in the Kodansha Bungei Bunko volume Shiroi Yakatabune / Bronze no Kubi, it quietly evokes family, hometown, and a persistent devotion to literature.

autobiographical fictionillnessfamilyhometowndevotion to literature

Work Information

The gaze of an ailing writer quietly illuminates memories of family and home.

Shiroi Yakatabune is confirmed as the title work of Kodansha Bungei Bunko's Shiroi Yakatabune / Bronze no Kubi. The volume was published in 1990, has 314 pages, and carries ISBN 9784061960923. Kodansha presents the collection as work by Uebayashi written out of an unyielding commitment to literature after a cerebral hemorrhage.

Book Information

Publisher
講談社
Published
1990-08-01
Pages
312 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784061960923
ISBN-10
406196092X
Price
562 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/文芸作品/日本文学

脳溢血で、右半身、下半身不随、言語障害に遭いながら、不撓不屈の文学への執念で歩んだ私小説の大道。読売文学賞「白い屋形船」川端賞「ブロンズの首」ほか、懐しく優しい、肉親・知友そして“ふるさと”の風景。故郷の四万十川のように、人知らずとも、汚れず流れる、文学への愛が、それのみが創造した美事な“清流”。

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