Documentary, Detection, and Reflexivity in Abe Kobo's Realist Project
by
Margaret Key
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Critics typically regard Abe Kobo (1924-93) as writing against realism, due to his avant-garde aesthetics that challenged the Naturalist realism dominating the literary mainstream and the Socialist realism of the orthodox Left in postwar Japan. He considered his work thoroughly realist, however, and...