Hiroyuki Agawa ( 阿川 弘 之 Agawa Hiroyuki , December 24, 1920 - August 3, 2015 ) is a Japanese writer and literary critic, a representative of the Third New literary group. He was awarded the Order of Culture ( 1999 ). Works: “Spring Castle” (春 の 城, 1953 , Yomiuri Prize ), biography “ Shiga Naoya ” (志 賀 直 哉, 1994 , Noma Prize and Minichi Prize ), dedicated to the Japanese military figures the biographical trilogy “ Yamamoto Isoroku ” (山本五十六, 1965 , translated into Russian as “Admiral Yamamoto”, Synthesia Prize ), “Yonai Mitsumasa” (米 内 光 政, 1978 ), “Inoue Shigeyoshi” (井上 成 美, 1986 ). Against the backdrop of other “third new” Agavas, while maintaining their inherent autobiography (Shiga Naoya had a strong influence on him), he is distinguished by a clear politicization of his writings, a centrality for the creation of a military theme, and a shift in emphasis from everyday events to historical ones.
| Hiroyuki Agave | ||
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| 阿川 弘 之 | ||
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| Date of Birth | December 24, 1920 | |
| Place of Birth | Hiroshima , Japan | |
| Date of death | August 3, 2015 (94 years old) | |
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| Citizenship (citizenship) | ||
| Occupation | prose writer | |
| Years of creativity | since 1946 | |
| Direction | " Third new " | |
| Genre | biography, egobelletristics | |
| Language of Works | ||
| Debut | "Year after year" | |
| Awards | Yomiuri Prize , Noma Award | |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Editions in Russian
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born in Hiroshima in the family of an entrepreneur. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Tokyo , Department of Japanese Literature (thesis - " Shiga Naoya "). In 1943 he was drafted into the army. He began his service as a junior lieutenant in the navy . He did not take direct part in the hostilities: thanks to his knowledge of the Chinese language , he was involved in intelligence as a translator of classified information. He met the end of the war in China in Hubei , where he was transferred after being promoted to senior lieutenant in 1944 . After demobilization in March 1946, he went home to Hiroshima, where he was shocked by the consequences of the atomic bombing of his hometown.
As a writer, he made his debut in 1946 with the sisitsu “Year after Year” (年年 歳 歳), where he described his meeting with a bombed surviving family in ruined Hiroshima. Subsequently, he repeatedly returned to the topic of Hiroshima. The story “August 6th” (八月 六日, 1947 ), created based on documentary evidence of hibakusha, created in the same years, is known. After the debut “Year after Year” was positively appreciated by the coryphaeus of the Shig Naoy genre, Agave became his student. The first significant work is the novel Spring Castle ( 1952 ), which Agave conceived as an artless and truthful requiem for his friends who served with him in the Navy and died during the war. The work was awarded the Yomiuri Prize and contributed to the recognition of the author. The Spring Castle was followed by the documentary story Devil's Inheritance (魔 の 遺産, 1954 ), where the bombing of Hiroshima and its consequences are described on behalf of a young Tokyo journalist: the plot is based on the journalist’s investigation into the death of his Hiroshima nephew and the hibakusha reaction to the activities created by the Americans Commissions for the study of diseases caused by the effects of the atomic bombing . The work was translated into English (in 1957 ) and Chinese. In further works, Agave often continued in an autobiographical manner (see The Stormy Sea, 暗 い 波濤, 1974 ) to develop a military theme.
As a literary critic, he is known for writing about his teacher, writer Shig Naoya. Among the other Agave most appreciated writers are Masuji Ibuse . Public debate and mutual rejection of each other's work by Agave and Kenzaburo Oe are widely known.
Editions in Russian
- Admiral Yamamoto. - M .: Centerpolygraph, 2003 .-- 432 p. - ISBN 5-9524-0195-3 .
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
Links
- Russian translation of "Admiral Yamamoto" (inaccessible link) (rus.)