Jun Etō
Jun Etō ( Japanese 江 藤 淳 Etō Jun , actually: Egashira Atsuo ( 江 頭 淳 夫 ); * December 25, 1932 ; † July 21, 1999 ) was a Japanese literary critic .
Life
Etō was already known as a student at Keiō University in the 1950s with essays on the writer Natsume Sōseki . In the 1960s, he wrote a study on the literary critic Kobayashi Hideo . He taught at the Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku , as well as his alma mater. Etō was known and controversial as a conservative critic of the intellectual world of Japan in the post-war period. In 1970 he was awarded the Noma Literature Prize. In 1999 he published the book "Meine Frau und ich", in which he described his experiences with his wife's death from cancer in 1998. In the same year he committed suicide after suffering a stroke.
Web links
- J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the present . Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-13804-8 , p. 502
- Obituary for Jun Eto. In: Los Angeles Times , July 23, 1999
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Etō, Jun |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 江 藤 淳 (Japanese); Atsuo Egashira |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1932 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1999 |