Kobayashi Hideo

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Kobayashi Hideo ( Japanese 小林 秀雄 ; born April 11, 1902 , † March 1, 1983 ) was a Japanese literary critic and writer.

Kobayashi Hideo

Life

Kobayashi studied French literature at the University of Tokyo. His literary career began when he won a second prize from Kaizo magazine for the critical essay Samazama naru Isho . In the following years he wrote critical texts on contemporary and classical literature, philosophy and art.

In 1931 he became editor of the literary magazine Bungaku-kai . Here he published in a series his biography Dostoyevsky and the article Watakushi Shosetsu Ron , an attack on the genre of the autobiographical novel ( watakushi shosetsu ) popular in Japan .

During the Second World War Kobayashi campaigned for Japanese military policy. In 1937 he published the essay Senso ni tsuite ( About the War ) in Kaizo , a leading intellectual magazine in Japan, and reported on several trips (including Kawabata Yasunari and Yokomitsu Riichi ) from Korea, China and Manchuria.

After the war, he was attacked for his support for Japanese war policy, but was not subjected to repression and retained his reputation as an important literary critic. In 1946 he published Mujo to iu koto (In transit), which was followed by a biography of Mozart and an edition of Dostoyevsky's letters. He translated works by Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud . Books like Watashi no jinseikan (English: My View of Life ) and Kangaeru hinto (English: Hints for Thinking ) became bestsellers.

Awards

Works

  • Hideo Kobayashi: real and fake . In: Flowers in the Wind. Essays and Sketches of the Japanese Present . Erdmann, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-88639-506-5 , p. 240 (Japanese: Shingan ( 真 贋 ) . Translated by Barbara Yoshida-Krafft).
  • Hideo Kobayashi: My view of life . In: Japanese Spiritual World . 1956, p. 328-329 .

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Kobayashi Hideo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 801.

Web links

Commons : Hideo Kobayashi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical note at the Shinchōsha publishing house
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kobayashi is the family name, Hideo the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kobayashi, Hideo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 小林 秀雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1902
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1983