Bungakukai ( Jap 文學界 Bungakkkai , Literary World) is a Japanese monthly literary magazine published by the Bunghei Shunju Publishing House. Focuses on the publication of literature junbungaku . The journal supervises its own literary prize for debutants. Along with the magazines " Sinte ", " Gungzo ", " Subaru " and " Bungay " is among the top five leading thick Japanese literary magazines.
History
For the first time the magazine, called “Bungakukai”, began to be published back in the 1890s . The origins of the journal, in the Meiji era , which became a sort of tribune for the school of romantics , were the poet Kitamura Tokoku and the writer Shimazaki Toson . One of its editors was the poet and translator of Bin Ued .
By the modern magazine "Bungakukai", however, this edition had no direct relation. The prototype of the latter arose in the 1930s , when a group of writers headed by Hideo Kobayashi and Fusao Hayashi began publishing their journal. Initially, the magazine was focused on authors who adhered to the credo of "art for art's sake". The situation changed in 1938 , when Jun Ishikawa published his anti-militarist “Song of Mars” in it. There were problems with censorship, as a result of which a fine was imposed on the magazine, which was replaced by Kan Kikuchi , the founder of Bunghei Shunju, instead of the then editor of Tetsutaro Kawakami . In this regard, the magazine went to the office of this publishing house, which continues to produce it to date.
Links
- Official site (jap.)