Abe Tomoji

Abe Tomoji, 1949

Abe Tomoji ( Japanese 阿 部 知 二 ; born June 26, 1903 , † April 23, 1973 ) was a Japanese writer, translator and literary critic.

Life

Abe studied English literature from 1924 to 1927 at the University of Tokyo with Edmund Blunden and published his first literary work Kasei in Campus-Magazin . After graduation, he taught English literature at Meiji University and Tōhoku University . In 1930 he published a volume of short stories under the title Koi to Afurika . In his literary-critical treatises Shuchiteki bungaku-ron he dealt with the modern literary concepts of the English writers Thomas Ernest Hulme , Herbert Read and TS Eliot . As a writer, he rejected contemporary proletarian literature as well as Marxism and ultra-nationalism.

In 1936 Abe's novel Fuyu no yado appeared , in which he dealt with the Japanese preparations for war. After the war he was involved in the revitalization of the Japanese PEN Club , maintained contacts with Soviet and Chinese authors and was active in the movement against the Vietnam War. He visited Java and traveled through China and Europe. He wrote other own literary and literary critical works such as Jitsu no mado (1959) and worked as a translator of works by Herman Melville ( Moby Dick ), Robert Louis Stevensons ( Treasure Island ), Arthur Conan Doyles ( Sherlock Holmes ) and the Brontë siblings (including Sturmhöhe ).

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• Akarui tomo ( 明 る い 友 )
  • engl. "The communist", translated by Grace Suzuki, Ukiyo, 1954

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• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 4 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• William Jefferson Tyler: Modanizumu: modernist fiction from Japan, 1913-1938 , University of Hawaii Press, 2008, ISBN 9780824832421 , p. 242
• John Scott Miller: Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater , Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780810858107 , p. 2

Individual evidence

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Abe is the family name, Tomoji the first name.