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Takiji Yuriko Award

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Natsuko Yoshikai

This long novel by Natsuko Yoshikai portrays people caught within labor activism and political conflict as a broad ensemble. Rather than treating organizational and ideological clashes only as abstractions, it layers homes, workplaces, poverty, and hesitation among working people, depicting a moment when historical tension is rising.

labor movementdemocratic literaturepolitical conflictensemble narrativelife and ideology

Work Information

Details of daily life intersect with organizational conflict, thickening the atmosphere on the eve of change.

Zenya is a two-volume novel by Natsuko Yoshikai, published by Shin Nihon Shuppansha. Workers, party members, families, and local people appear in large numbers, each carrying the weight of daily life while being drawn into conflicts inside and outside organizations. Through concrete scenes such as cramped homes, workplaces, meetings, and family care, rather than through ideological language alone, it portrays the ideals and realities of social movements as a work of democratic literature.

Review Summaries

  • At the time of the award, the work was discussed as a novel that portrays the effort to establish democratic practice across a long span of time. Its importance lies in connecting socially grounded character portrayal with broader conflicts.

Book Information

Publisher
新日本出版社
Published
1980-03-01
Pages
367 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784406006729
ISBN-10
4406006729
Price
1815 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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