Literary Front - Bungei Sensen

A literary magazine. It was first published as a coterie magazine in June 1924 (Taisho 13) by Aono Suekichi and Komaki Oumi, co-authors of "The Sower." It published works and critiques by Hayama Yoshiki, Kuroshima Denji, Hirabayashi Taiko, Aono, and others, and played a central and leading role in the proletarian literature movement of this period. In June 1927 (Showa 2), when the Japan Proletarian Art League, of which Aono was a member, split, the mainstream faction formed the Labor-Farmer Artists League, and it became its organ magazine thereafter. After the Labor-Farmers split in November, it solidified its position in support of Yamakawa Hitoshi's "Labor-Farmer," and opposed the NAPF faction, which supported the Communist Party and was based on Aono, Hayama, Maeda Kouichirou, and others, but it weakened due to continued splits and withdrawals. It was renamed "Bunsen" in January 1956. It ceased publication in July 1957. The total number of volumes is 92. There is a reprint edition.

[Shoji Sobue]

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文芸雑誌。『種蒔(ま)く人』同人の青野季吉(すえきち)、小牧近江(おうみ)らが1924年（大正13）6月同人誌として創刊。葉山嘉樹(よしき)、黒島伝治、平林たい子、青野らの作品や評論を掲載し、この期のプロレタリア文学運動の中心的、指導的役割を果たした。同人が参加していた日本プロレタリア芸術連盟が分裂した27年（昭和2）6月、同人主流派は労農芸術家連盟を結成、以後その機関誌となった。11月の労芸分裂以降、山川均(ひとし)らの『労農』を支持する立場を固定し、青野、葉山、前田河広一郎(まえだこうひろいちろう)らが拠(よ)って共産党支持のナップ派と対立したが、分裂・脱退が続き弱体化した。31年1月より『文戦』と改題。32年7月廃刊。通巻92冊。復刻版がある。

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