Kurahara Korehito

Japanese: 蔵原惟人 - くらはらこれひと

Born: January 26, 1902, Tokyo
[Died] January 25, 1991. Tokyo critic. Pen names include Sato Koichi, Tanimoto Kiyoshi, and Furukawa Soichiro. Graduated from the Russian department of Tokyo School of Foreign Languages in 1923. Studied in the Soviet Union from February 1925 to November of the following year. After returning to Japan, he became a member of the Literary Front (1926). In 1927, he established himself as a leading theorist of the Marxist literary movement with his works Modern Japanese Literature and the Proletariat and Criteria for Marxist Literary Criticism. In works such as The Road to Proletarian Realism (28) and The New Tasks of NAPF Artists (30), he preached a literary theory that prioritized politics toward the "establishment of communist art," and led the revolutionary reorganization of NAPF into KOPF. He was arrested in 1932 for violating the Peace Preservation Law, and released in 1940 for not changing his views. After the Second World War, he founded the New Japan Literary Association (46) with Shigeharu Nakano and Yuriko Miyamoto, and led the reconstruction of the proletarian literary movement as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party. His other works include "Art Theory" (32), "Literary Theory" (50), "National Culture and Literature" (55), and "Thoughts on Literature" (72).

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[生]1902.1.26. 東京
[没]1991.1.25. 東京
評論家。筆名，佐藤耕一，谷本清，古川荘一郎など。 1923年東京外国語学校露語科卒業。 25年2月から翌年 11月までソ連に留学，帰国後『文芸戦線』同人となり (1926) ，27年『現代日本文学と無産階級』『マルクス主義文芸批評の基準』でマルクス主義文学運動の指導理論家の位置を確立。『プロレタリヤ・レアリズムへの道』 (28) や『「ナップ」芸術家の新しい任務』 (30) などで，「共産主義芸術の確立」に向う政治優先の文学論を説き，またナップのコップへの画期的な改組を指導した。 32年治安維持法違反で検挙され，40年非転向で出所。第2次世界大戦後は中野重治，宮本百合子らと新日本文学会を結成 (46) ，日本共産党中央委員としてプロレタリア文学運動の再建を指導した。その他の著書『芸術論』 (32) ，『文学論』 (50) ，『国民の文化と文学』 (55) ，『文学への思索』 (72) など。

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