Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo
Author:
Susan J. Napier
ISBN:
067426181X
Format:
Handover
Publish Date:
June, 2005
Book Review
Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In 'Escape from the Wasteland' Susan J. Napier examine their vivid and often perverse depiction's of sex, impotence, emperor worship, and violence. For new readers of Oe and Mishima, this is an indispensable guide. For critics and scholars, it is the benchmark study.