Patriotic Bloodshed - Patriotic Bloodshed

…This is why his criticism of Symbolism, Axel's Castle (1931), turned out to be a pioneering interpretation of Symbolism and of the literature of the 1920s. His literary chronicles, consisting of three volumes of book reviews, including Classics and Commodity Literature (1950), The Shore of Light (1952), and The Bit Between My Teeth (1965), long essays such as To the Finland Station (1940), which dramatically depicts the origins and history of socialism, and Patriotic Bloodshed (1962), a collection of testimonies from the Civil War era that explored a vast amount of secret records, literary essays such as Wounds and Bows (1941) and A Window to Russia (1972), as well as novels, plays, travelogues, and autobiographical prose, all boast a mature style worthy of the "last man of letters." [Toki Koji] …

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…象徴主義批判の書《アクセルの城》(1931)が逆に象徴主義，ひいては20年代文学の先駆的味解の書たりえたゆえんである。書評を主軸とする《古典と商品文学》(1950)，《光の岸辺》(1952)，《わが歯間の馬銜（はみ）》(1965)の3巻の文学的年代記，社会主義の起源と歴史を劇的に構成した《フィンランド駅へ》(1940)や南北戦争時代の膨大な秘録を渉猟した警世の証言集《愛国の流血》(1962)などの長編評論，《傷と弓》(1941)，《ロシアへの窓》(1972)などの文学論集，そのほか小説，戯曲，旅行記，自伝的散文など，いずれも〈最後の文人〉にふさわしい文体の成熟を誇っている。【土岐 恒二】。…

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