Aono Suekichi

Aono Suekichi

Aono Suekichi ( Japanese 青 野 季 吉 ; * 1890 ; † 1961 ) was a Japanese Marxist literary theorist and critic.

Aono had a significant influence on proletarian literature in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. Although a Marxist, he had repeated differences with the Japanese Communist Party. In the 1930s he moved more and more away from orthodox Marxist positions.

Aono worked as a critic for the proletarian magazine Bungei Sensen . In 1923 he published a study of the works of Lenin . After the Second World War he became chairman of the writers' association Nihon Bungeika Kyōkei . In 1949 he was awarded the Yomiuri Literature Prize for Gendai-bungaku-ron , in 1955 he received the Mainichi Culture Prize for the literary theoretical work Gendai bungakuron taikei , in 1958 for Bungaku gojūnen and in 1964 for the diary Aono Suekichi nikki .

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• Michael Bourdaghs: The dawn that never comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese nationalism . Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 9780231129800 , pp. 178 f.
• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 35 (English, limited preview in the Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).

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