The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro

by Stephen Dodd

Book Overview

When he died from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, Kajii Motojirō had written only twenty short stories. Yet his life and work, it is argued here, sheds light on a significant moment in Japanese history and, ultimately, adds to our understanding of how modern Japanese identity developed. By the time Kajii began to write in the mid-1920s there was heated debate among his peers over "legitimate" forms of literary expression: Japanese Romantics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824867688
• ISBN13: 9780824867683
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"