ユ-トピア文学論 (徹夜の塊)
Utopia Bungakuron is Mitsuyoshi Numano's critical study centered on Russian and East European literature. It examines literary imagination as it moves between dreams of utopia and nightmares of dystopia, treating this tension as central to twentieth-century literature.
utopiadystopiaRussian literatureEast European literaturetwentieth century
Work Information
The book reads the exhilaration and terror of imagining a place not found in the here and now.
Published by Sakuhinsha in February 2003 as the second volume of Tetsuya no Katamari. An expanded edition appeared in 2022, but the identifier here follows the original prize-winning edition.
Review Summaries
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The study is valued for approaching literary imagination through both utopia and anti-utopia across a wide range of works. The later expanded edition shows the lasting relevance of the original argument.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 作品社
- Published
- 2003-03-01
- Pages
- 354 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784878935374
- ISBN-10
- 4878935375
- Price
- 1800 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論/評論・文学研究/外国文学研究/ロシア・東欧文学
第24回（2002年） サントリー学芸賞・芸術・文学部門受賞