The third newcomer

Japanese: 第三の新人 - だいさんのしんじん
The third newcomer

This refers to writers who became literary writers in the late 1940s and after, such as Yasuoka Shotaro, Yoshiyuki Junnosuke, Kojima Nobuo, Shono Junzo, Onuma Tan, Sono Ayako, Miura Shumon, and Endo Shusaku. These writers follow the first postwar generation (Hirano Ken, Haniya Yutaka, Noma Hiroshi, etc.) and the second postwar generation (Nakamura Shinichiro, Fukunaga Takehiko, Kato Shuichi, etc.), and this term comes from Yamamoto Kenkichi's critique "The Third New Writer" (Bungakukai, January 1953). Critic Hattori Tatsu pointed out that the commonalities between these writers were "spending their youth during the war," "joining the current of a return to the tradition of autobiographical novels," and "metaphorically corresponding to the economic recovery brought about by the special demand following the Korean War" ("Underachieving Students, Slightly Disabled People, and Citizens: From the Third New Writer to the Fourth New Writer", Bungakukai, September 1955), demonstrating a contemporary understanding.

[Yoshiki Kuritsubo]

[References] | Shusaku Endo | Tan Konuma | Nobuo Kojima |Junzo Shono | Ayako Sono | Shumon Miura | Shotaro Yasuoka |Kenichi Yamamoto | Junnosuke Yoshiyuki

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

昭和20年代後半以降に文壇作家となった安岡章太郎、吉行淳之介(よしゆきじゅんのすけ)、小島信夫(のぶお)、庄野(しょうの)潤三、小沼丹(おぬまたん)、曽野綾子(そのあやこ)、三浦朱門(しゅもん)、遠藤周作などをさしていう。第一次戦後派(平野謙、埴谷雄高(はにやゆたか)、野間宏(のまひろし)ら)、第二次戦後派(中村真一郎(しんいちろう)、福永武彦、加藤周一(しゅういち)ら)に続く作家たちで、この呼称は、山本健吉の評論「第三の新人」(『文学界』1953.1)に由来する。評論家服部達(はっとりたつ)は、彼らの共通項として、「戦争中に青春を過ごしたこと」、「私小説的伝統への復帰の流れに棹(さお)さしたこと」、「朝鮮動乱の特需による景気回復に比喩(ひゆ)的に照応すること」(「劣等生、小不具者、そして市民――第三の新人から第四の新人へ」、『文学界』1955.9)をあげ同世代的な理解を示した。

[栗坪良樹]

[参照項目] | 遠藤周作 | 小沼丹 | 小島信夫 | 庄野潤三 | 曽野綾子 | 三浦朱門 | 安岡章太郎 | 山本健吉 | 吉行淳之介

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