The traitor a novel Kobo Abe ; translated by Mark Gibeau

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993, author.

Contributor:

Gibeau, Mark, translator.

Standardized Title:

Enomoto takeaki. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Enomoto, Takeaki, 1836-1908--Fiction.

Enomoto, Takeaki.

Japan--History--Fiction.

Japan.

Genre:

Fiction

Novels

Translations

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Columbia University Press (Lightning Source), 2026.

New York Columbia University Press 2026

Summary:

In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an admiral in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate who regained authority under the Meiji government. A former member of imperial Japan's military police, the innkeeper dwells on the question of loyalty even as he struggles with his responsibility for the arrest and murder of his brother-in-law during the war. Later, he sends the writer a mysterious manuscript purporting to be the account of a peddler turned samurai whom Enomoto betrayed. Part historical fiction, part detective story, The Traitor is a remarkable novel about navigating changing political landscapes by one of the most significant modern Japanese writers. In his only historical novel, Abe Kōbō turns to a pivotal moment in Japan's past to explore profound questions about the nature of loyalty and the choices that people must make when they encounter forces beyond their control or understanding. Published in 1964, when a new generation had begun asking their parents about the war, Abe's tale of betrayal sparked controversy across the political spectrum. The great writer's most important previously untranslated novel, The Traitor displays Abe's literary mastery from a new angle

Contents:

Frontmatter CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Notes on the Translation Maps Part 1 Part 2: A Complete Account of the Formation of the Five-Man Conspiracy Part 3 Translator's Afterword

Notes:

Translated from the Japanese

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Print version :

Print version Abe, Kōbō The Traitor

ISBN:

9780231559645

023155964X

9780231565486

0231565488

OCLC:

1573657210

Publisher Number:

CIPO000338656

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