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Author Kuroi, Senji, 1932- author.

Title Engaging banality : stories of the salaried life / by Kuroi Senji ; translated and with an introduction by Peter Tillack
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Hole and sky -- Time -- Running family
Summary Engaging Banality: Stories of the Salaried Life by Kuroi Senji features three of the best-known works of Kuroi Senji's early career. \'Hole and Sky\' (1968), Time (1969) and Running Family (1970) received widespread critical attention in Japan and have been reprinted many times, yet none has been translated until now. In its own way each story reveals the profound ambivalence increasing numbers of Japanese began to feel toward their lives as their desires were channelled into the nation's single-minded goal of achieving high-speed economic growth. The stories are preceded by a critical introduction that situates Kuroi's development and ethos as a writer within the context of profound socio-cultural change spanning the end of World War II through the early 1970s
Notes Includes index
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 3, 2021)
Subject Labor -- Fiction
Employees -- Fiction
FICTION / General
Employees
Labor
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author Tillack, Peter, translator
Kuroi, Senji, 1932- Ana to Sora. English
Kuroi, Senji, 1932- Jikan. English
Kuroi, Senji, 1932- Hashiru Kazoku. English
LC no. 2017024262
ISBN 9789004344686
9004344683
Other Titles Novels. Selections. English