A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World - Softcover

Kato, Shuichi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520219791 ISBN 13: 9780520219793

Verlag: University of California Press, 1999

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Book by Shuichi Kato

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"Now updated and expanded, [Kato Shuichi's "A Sheep's Song] is accessible for readers of English in a fluid translation by Chia-ning Chang . . . the memoir of a world-class intellectual who has transcended national boundaries."--Doug Slaymaker, "Journal of Japanese Studies

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This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey from the militarist era of prewar Japan to the dynamic postwar landscapes of Japan and Europe. This fluid translation of "A Sheep's Song" captures Kato's unique voice and brings his insightful interpretation of modern Japan and its tumultuous relations with the outside world to English-speaking readers for the first time. Kato describes his youthful interest in the natural sciences as well as in Japanese and Western literatures - from the Man'yoshu to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Baudelaire, Valery, and Proust. Turning to the rise of Japanese fascism in the late 1930s, he recalls his rebellion against the jingoistic political atmosphere of the time. The chapters on the war and its aftermath include experiences of Hiroshima shortly after the bombing and the often tragicomic encounters between the defeated Japanese nation and the American Occupation forces. Throughout, memories of his wide-ranging literary career and broad experiences in Europe as a student, traveler, and cultural observer are punctuated by his unique perspectives on the relation between imagination, art, and politics. A postscript written especially for the English-language edition discusses the Vietnam War, the subsequent transformation of Japan, the cultures and societies of Europe, the United States, and China, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0520219791
• ISBN 13: 9780520219793
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 508