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Paperback The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro Book

ISBN: 0824867688

ISBN13: 9780824867683

The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro

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When he died from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, Kajii Motojirō had written only twenty short stories. Yet his life and work, it is argued here, sheds light on a significant moment in Japanese history and, ultimately, adds to our understanding of how modern Japanese identity developed. By the time Kajii began to write in the mid-1920s there was heated debate among his peers over "legitimate" forms of literary expression: Japanese Romantics...

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