Literature of the Lost Home : Kobayashi Hideo—Literary Criticism, 1924-1939 / Hideo Kobayashi; ed. by Paul Anderer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kobayashi, Hideo, Author.

Contributor:

Anderer, Paul, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Kobayashi Hideo (1902-83) was the most important Japanese literary critic of the twentieth century, as crucial a presence in his own literary culture as Edmund Wilson, Walter Benjamin, and Roland Barthes were in theirs. It is not too much to say that modern literary criticism in Japan begins with Kobayashi. Echoes of his judgments and values are everywhere present in modern Japanese literary discourse. Indeed, his impact on later criticism is such that writing about Kobayashi has become something of a rite of passage for Japanese critics aspiring to literary leadership. This book is a collection of the most significant and enduring works from the period when Kobayashi established himself as Japan's preeminent literary critic. Reviews "Anderer has now given readers of English the opportunity to form their own conclusions [about Kobayashi]. This is no mean feat, as anyone who has dipped into the original texts knows, and for it he deserves much gratitude. . . . Given the difficulties of Kobayashi's style . . . translation is a paramount issue. Anderer has risen to the occasion admirably." —Monumenta Nipponica "By making these widely read and often "ed essays available in English, Anderer has provided a valuable service." —Japan Quarterly

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

TRANSLATIONS

Complete Works

"Multiple Designs"

"The Anxiety of Modern Literature"

"Literature of the Lost Home"

"Chaos in the Literary World"

"Discourse on Fiction of the Self"

Miscellaneous Writings: Excerpts

"One Brain"

"Recollections of Nakahara Chūya"

"Rimbaud I," "Rimbaud, II," "Rimbaud, III"

"The Muse and the Fate of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke"

"An Approach to Flowers of Evil"

"Shiga Naoya" and "A Study of Shiga Naoya"

"On Theory and Practice"

"Is Literature Unreal?"

"Yokomitsu Riichi"

"A Passion for Materiality"

"Marx's Insight"

"Disqualified as a Critic"

"On the Work of Ibuse Masuji"

"The Psychological Novel"

"The Debate on the Scientific Nature of Literary Criticism"

"Tanizaki Jun'ichirō"

"French Literature and the New Japanese Literature"

"On Pure Fiction"

"On Valéry"

"On Paradox"

"Fiction Studies, I"

"Letter to X"

"Notebook II"

"On Literary Criticism"

"Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's Primer on Style"

"More Thoughts on the Literary Review"

"Yokomitsu Riichi's Book of Remembrance"

"Face of the Author"

''Ideas and Real Life"

"A Response to Nakano Shigeharu"

"Problems of the Modern Novel"

"A Study of Kikuchi Kan"

"The Issue of 'Things Japanese'"

"Modern Writers and Style"

"The Direction of Literary Criticism"

"On War"

A Life of Dostoevsky

REFERENCE MATTER

Glossary

Chronology

Bibliography

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-1576-6

OCLC:

1322124506