Escape from the Wasteland

Download or read book Escape from the Wasteland written by Susan Jolliffe Napier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Susan Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio’s and Kenzaburo’s fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer’s position in the tradition of Japanese literature.