Yoshie Hotta: Solitude in the Square

The first work by the post-war Japanese liberal author, Japanese novel writer and thinker Hpta Yoshi, was translated. The writer was rewarded with this Akutagawa by the book Loneliness in the Square. The 1951 project sets the background of Japan during the Korean War, before the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. The main character, Gikiki, is a temporary worker who translates foreign articles from the press. He is a professional war expert in South Korea, and he has an attitude toward his boss who moves North Korea to be the enemy. And what does the war in the neighboring countries have to do with their lives as temporary employees of the newspaper? His doubts lead to changes in life and thought of people who have no direct correlation with this war, as well as himself. The book of Masso sets the background on China, which is the moment Japan surrendered to the Pacific War. The leading Chinese poet, Hikida and Phil, are the center of the story. André is a ultra-realist poet who writes poems to Hikida's newspaper, and he has little interest in the Japanese colonial slave for China. He is only a French super-realist poet, who, in fact, has become a very heavy trinitarian poet of Japanese and French literature. His attitude is to make the Japanese surrender declaration a warning. But Hikida thinks that André is not worthy of being a mere super-realist. The fact that this method of disparity, which is easy to do at both ends or at the boundary point, also argues against the value judgment of both parties. The book Loneliness in the Square is a personal work that has tailed the Japanese community for the impact of the Korean War. The book of Masses calls for a trap of rational judgment that has led to the error of generalization.

Korean title: 광장의 고독

Korean author: 홋타 요시에

Korean publisher: 논형

ISBN-13: 9788963572642