Gunzo Newcomer Criticism Prize
不幸と共存: 魂的文芸批評 (対抗言論叢書 4)
Yoshimi Kawaguchi's essay Coexisting with Affliction: On Simone Weil uses Weil's thought on affliction to reconsider violence, discrimination, and the ethics of literary criticism. It was later collected in Coexisting with Affliction: Soulful Literary Criticism.
Work Information
An essay that asks what ethical language can be when it confronts affliction through Weil's thought.
After its magazine publication, the prize-winning essay was included in Hosei University Press's collection Coexisting with Affliction: Soulful Literary Criticism. Centered on Weil and also engaging with critics such as Hideo Kobayashi, Shigeharu Nakano, and Jun Eto, the book asks how literary language can respond to affliction and violence.
Review Summaries
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The book is described as inheriting currents of Japanese literary criticism while beginning from Weil to face the pain of literature and society.
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The essay has been received as still urgent for readers thinking about war and overwhelming violence, with attention paid to the intensity of its criticism.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 法政大学出版局
- Published
- 2023-12-25
- Pages
- 318 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- Size
- 13.5 x 2.5 x 19.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9784588460241
- ISBN-10
- 4588460242
- Price
- 3520 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
テクストの熟読を通じて〈私〉を問い、書くことの暴力のただなかで〈私〉を外部へ、他者へと開いていくこと──。小林秀雄、中野重治、秋山駿、江藤淳ら日本文芸批評の潜勢力を受け継ぎ、室井光広のてんでんこな魂とともに更新される文学的革命と連帯のミッション。シモーヌ・ヴェイユ論で群像新人評論賞を受賞した気鋭の批評家、待望の第一評論集!
川口 好美 1987年、大阪生れ。東海大学文学部文芸創作学科卒。2021年から、静岡県川根本町の小集落・沢間で「本とおもちゃ てんでんこ」を家族で営む。文芸批評家。
Related Literary Awards
- Gunzo Newcomer Criticism Prize Edition 2 (2017) ・excellent work