Tadayoshi Kondo

A scholar of Japanese literature. Born in Kobe City. Graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at Tokyo Imperial University in 1927 (Showa 2). From 1957 he published research on Japanese classical literature based on Marxism and played an active role as a central figure in the "history and society" school. In 1959 he became a professor at Hosei University. He published works such as "The Theory of Japanese Literature" (1937) and was arrested in 1944 for opposing militaristic ideology. After the war, he joined the Japanese Communist Party. In 1946 he organized the Japanese Literature Association and was later recommended as its first chairman, and was invited to China, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. In 1966 (Showa 41), he became a professor at Wako University. After his death, "Kondo Tadayoshi's Theory of Japanese Literature" was published in three volumes (1977).

[Shoji Sobue]

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国文学者。神戸市生まれ。1927年（昭和2）東京帝国大学国文科卒業。32年以降マルクス主義に基づく日本古典文学研究を発表、「歴史・社会」学派の中心人物として活躍。34年法政大学教授。『日本文学原論』（1937）などを刊行、軍国主義的思潮に抗し44年検挙。敗戦後、日本共産党に入党。46年日本文学協会を組織、のち初代委員長に推され、中国、ソ連、チェコスロバキアなどに招かれた。66年（昭和41）和光大学教授。没後『近藤忠義　日本文学論』全3巻（1977）が刊行された。

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