Takiji Kobayashi

Takiji Kobayashi (Japanese小林 多 喜 二, born October 13, 1903 in Shimokawazoi today: Ōdate, † February 20, 1933 Tokyo ) was a Japanese author of proletarian literature. As a member of the Communist Party, he was arrested in February 1933 by the police and tortured to death.

Life

Kobayashi was born in 1903 as the son of a farmer. From 1916 to 1926 he attended a commercial school in Hokkaido and then worked as a bank clerk. Due to his political activities, he was discharged in 1930 and moved to Tokyo to. From 1931 on, he served as Secretary of the newly founded Federal proletarian writer (日本 プロレタリア 作家 同盟, Nihon puroretaria sakka domei ).

The turn Kobayashi to socialism is expressed already in the early works, such as the short story from Ken. With his novel Kanikosen (蟹 工 船, The crab fishermen ) Kobayashi moved up in the ranks of the proletarian writer. The novel depicts the struggle of fishermen and sailors of a fishing fleet to offer decent living conditions. The novel was banned in the 30s and 40s in Japan and was filmed in 1953 and 2009.

In another major work Tōseikatsusha (党 生活 者, A Life of the Party), which was published in 1933 under the title Tenkan jidai ( era of change), the unnamed narrator, a member of the party tried the factory workers against dismissal strategy of factory management to organize. The style of both works reminiscent of the style of Shiga Naoya's shishosetsu and Shimazaki Tōsons.

Among his teachers in the Graduate School of Otaru included the German Physical chemist Louis Hugo Frank, who had to leave due to political accusations Japan in 1943, his son died still there in the prison.

Works

  • Kobayashi Takisi: March 15, 1928: A Japanese workers narrative, Berlin, 1932
  • Takidji Kobajaschi: crab fishing, Berlin ( East), Verlag Volk und Welt, 1958
  • Takiji Kobayashi: The factory ship, translated by Alfons Mainka, wages, Cass, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9809022-8-1.

Swell

  • Jürgen Berndt: BI Encyclopedia East Asian literatures. Bibliographical Institute in Leipzig, 1987, ISBN 3-323-00128-1
  • Katō Shuichi: A history of japanese literature - Vol.3: The modern years, Tokyo, New York, London, 1990, p.160 ISBN 4 7700 1547 X
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