Kiichiro Kamei

...Critic. Born in Hokkaido. At the time, his father, Kiichiro, was the manager of the Hakodate Savings Bank. In 1923, he entered the old Yamagata High School, where he became familiar with the works of Goethe and Heine through German and also became interested in Communist ideology. In 1926, he entered the University of Tokyo, where he met Nakano Shigeharu and others, and was active as a member of the Shinjinkai and the Communist Youth League. In 1928, he was arrested and imprisoned. He was released two years later and joined the League of Japanese Proletarian Writers (Narup) to start afresh as a critic, but after the league was dissolved, he worked for the coterie magazine Genjitsu, and in 1935, he founded the Japanese Romantic Group with Yasuda Yojuro and others, searching for a way to regenerate his self after his conversion. ...

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…評論家。北海道生れ。当時，父喜一郎は函館貯蓄銀行の支配人であった。1923年旧制山形高に入学，ドイツ語を通してゲーテ，ハイネの作品に親しみ，また，共産主義思想に関心を寄せる。26年東大に入学，中野重治らを知り新人会会員，共産青年同盟員として活躍，28年検挙投獄される。2年後出獄，日本プロレタリア作家同盟(ナルプ)に所属して評論家として再出発するが，同盟解散後，同人雑誌《現実》をへて，35年保田与重郎らと《日本浪曼（ろうまん）派》を創刊，転向以後の自我再生の道を模索する。…

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