Tomoji Abe
Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist and translator · Japan · On the map · Writers · Lived 1903 to 1973 · aged 69
Tomoji Abe was a Japanese novelist, social critic, humanist, and translator of English and American literature. Although he began writing as a modernist, in his later works he represented the intellectual movement in Japanese literature.
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This movement departed from Japanese traditional thinking and from established forms of narration, which focused on esthetic values and emotional states of mind ; it also departed from modernist views, which continued to be popular in world literature and in Japan. Abe's intellectual approach was incompatible with the socio-political atmosphere of Japan in the early Shōwa period (1926-1945), with rising fascism and militarism, and the crusade to preserve Japanese feudal traditions.
