Under What Stars?

...At the time, he insisted on his own eloquent style, saying that he "cannot sleep behind description." As a member of the People's Library, he tried to maintain the spirit of prose in opposition to the trend of the times toward fascism, but in Under What Star (1939-40) he leaned toward depicting the customs of Asakusa. After the war, he started with Here in the Depths of My Heart, which delves into the secret of his own birth as an illegitimate child. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…当時，彼は〈描写のうしろに寝てゐられない〉と独自の饒舌体を主張した。ファシズムにむかう時代の流れに抗し《人民文庫》の同人として散文精神を固守しようとしたが，《如何なる星の下に》(1939‐40)では浅草の風俗を描く方に傾いた。戦後は，私生児という自己の出生の秘密にくい込んだ《わが胸の底のここには》でスタート。…

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