Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902-1978) (Harvard East Asian Monographs) - Hardcover

John Solt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674807332 ISBN 13: 9780674807334

Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999

Synopsis

Kitasono Katue was a leading avant-garde literary figure, first in Japan and then throughout the world, from the 1920s to the 1970s. In his long career, Kitasono was instrumental in creating Japanese-language work influenced by futurism, dadaism, and surrealism before World War II and in contributing a Japanese voice to the international avant-garde movement after the war. This critical biography of Kitasono examines the life, poetry, and poetics of this controversial and flamboyant figure, including his wartime support of the Japanese state. Using Kitasono as a window on Japanese literature in the twentieth century, John Solt analyzes the relationship of Japanese writers to foreign literary movements and the influence of Japanese writers on world literature.

About this title

About the Author:

John Solt is an independent scholar.

Review:

Katue, on the evidence of this admirable book, is one of the great tragicomic characters of our century.
--Anthony Thwaite (Times Literary Supplement)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0674807332
• ISBN 13: 9780674807334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 411