Engaging banality : stories of the salaried life / by Kuroi Senji ; translated and with an introduction by Peter Tillack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuroi, Senji, 1932- author.

Contributor:

Tillack, Peter, translator.

Standardized Title:

Novels. Selections. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

155 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

Engaging Banality: Stories of the Salaried Life by Kuroi Senji' features three of the best-known works of Kuroi Senji?s early career. 'Hole and Sky' (1968), 'Time' (1969) and 'Running Family' (1970) received widespread critical attention in Japan and have been reprinted many times, yet none has been translated until now. In its own way each story reveals the profound ambivalence increasing numbers of Japanese began to feel toward their lives as their desires were channelled into the nation?s single-minded goal of achieving high-speed economic growth. The stories are preceded by a critical introduction that situates Kuroi?s development and ethos as a writer within the context of profound socio-cultural change spanning the end of World War II through the early 1970s. 00Translated from Japanese by Peter Tillack.

Contents:

Hole and sky

Time

Running family.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contains:

Kuroi, Senji, 1932- Ana to Sora. English.

Kuroi, Senji, 1932- Jikan. English.

Kuroi, Senji, 1932- Hashiru Kazoku. English.

Other Format:

Online version: Kuroi, Senji, 1932- author. Engaging banality

ISBN:

9789004339606

9004339604

OCLC:

987490758