"Landscape with Dead Trees" - Dead Tree Landscape

...His style was based on humor and pathos, told through eloquent prose. After publishing "Military Port March" (1927), he fell into a state of mental illness, but he eventually recovered and returned to the literary world with "A Landscape with Dead Trees" (1933), which centered on his relationship with the Osaka painter Koide Naraju. His style also changed to narrative, and he published "Dream of the Barren Field" and "The History of the Child" (both 1933), "Poverty for a Juggler," and his representative postwar work was "Omoigawa" (1948). He was also a skilled essayist, and "Akutagawa Ryunosuke" was a powerful work. ...

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…饒舌体の文章で物語るユーモアとペーソスを基調とした作風であった。《軍港行進曲》(1927)発表後，精神異常に陥るが，やがて回復，大阪の画家小出楢重とのかかわりを軸にした《枯木のある風景》(1933)により文壇に復帰，作風も叙述体に変わり，《枯野の夢》《子の来歴》(ともに1933)，《器用貧乏》などを発表，戦後の代表作は《思ひ川》(1948)である。随筆的評論も巧妙で《芥川竜之介》は力作。…

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