Fruits of Olympus

...From 1935, excluding periods of military service, he spent a total of eight years in Korea, where he worked for a company and was involved in the organization of the Korean Writers' Association. He received the Ikeya Shinzaburo Prize for his youth novel "Olympus no jujutsu" (1940), which was based on his experience participating in the Olympics. After the war, he joined the Communist Party and became the Numazu district chairman, but left the party after about a year, and in works such as "Kishitsu kara" (From the Basement) (1948), he criticized the postwar revolutionary movement from within. ...

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…35年からは兵役の期間等を除き，足かけ8年にわたって朝鮮にあり，会社勤めのかたわら朝鮮文人協会の組織にかかわった。オリンピック参加の体験を素材にした青春小説《オリンポスの果実》(1940)によって池谷信三郎賞を受ける。戦後は共産党に入党，沼津地区委員長となるが，1年ほどで離党，《地下室から》(1948)などで，戦後の革命運動を内部から批判的に告発した。…

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