Zenzō Kasai

Kasai Zenzo (Japanese葛西 善 蔵; born January 16, 1887 † July 23, 1928 ) was a Japanese writer and journalist.

Kasai was as author under the influence of Japanese naturalism. In his " I - novels " ( shishosetsu ) he describes poverty, disease and loneliness. The narrator of his most famous novel co o tsurete ( With the children by the hand ) moves after he has lost his home, homeless and destitute in the streets. More novels are Kanachiki chichi (1912 ), Akuma (1912 ) and Kohan Shuki ( 1924).

Swell

  • Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 484 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Joan E. Ericson: "Be a woman: Hayashi Fumiko and modern Japanese women 's literature ", University of Hawaii Press, 1997, ISBN 9780824818845, p 218
  • Tomi Suzuki: " Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity ", Stanford University Press, 1997, ISBN 9780804731621, p 7
  • Author
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Novel, epic
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1887
  • Died in 1928
  • Man
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