Kojima Nobuo (Book order (chronological))

Kojima Nobuo Book order (chronological)

February 28, 1915 – October 26, 2006

Nobuo Kojima emerged as a significant voice in post-war Japanese literature, closely examining the profound psychological impact of Japan's defeat in World War II. Influenced by literary giants such as Gogol, Kafka, and Dostoevsky, his own fiction spans a wide range, from the experimental to the allegorical and symbolic. Beyond his creative writing, Kojima also served as a professor of English literature, dedicating himself to criticism and translating influential American authors, thereby bridging Japanese and Western literary traditions.

Embracing Family

190 pages
7 hours of reading

Set during the U.S. Occupation following World War II, Embracing Family is a novel of conflict--between Western and Eastern traditions, between a husband and wife, between ideals and reality. At the opening of the book, Miwa Shunsuke and his wife are trapped in a strained marriage, subtly attacking one another in a manner similar to that of the characters in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? When his wife has an affair with an American GI, Miwa is forced to come to terms with the disintegration of their relationship and the fact that his attempts to repair it only exacerbate the situation. An award-winning novel, critics have read this book as a metaphor of postwar Japanese society, in which the traditional moral and philosophical basis of Japanese culture is neglected in favor of Western conventions.

2005

3.1