Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and OE Kenzaburo

by Susan J. Napier

Book Overview

In short stories, novellas, and novels, two major postwar Japanese novelists, Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo, have explored the alienated life of twentieth-century Japan with an unsparing eye and at times a savage sense of humour. In this study, Susan Napier demonstrates that each author's vivid and often perverse depictions of sex, impotence, emperor worship, and violence are matched by images of romantic alternative realities which offer characters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674261801
• ISBN13: 9780674261808
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.5"