Escape from the Wasteland Romaniticism and Realism in the Ficion of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo

Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio's and Kenzaburo's fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer's position in the tradition of Japanese literature.Napier, Susan Jolliffe is the author of 'Escape from the Wasteland Romaniticism and Realism in the Ficion of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo' with ISBN 9780674261808 and ISBN 0674261801.