Kataoka Teppei

Kataoka Teppei ( Japanese 片 岡 鉄 兵 ; * February 2, 1894 in Okayama Prefecture ; † December 25, 1944 ) was a Japanese writer.

Kataoka Teppei, 1929

Life

Kataoka became known as the author of the magazine Bungei Jidai ( 文 芸 時代 ). The magazine founded by Yokomitsu Riichi and Kawabata Yasunari was the organ of the literary school Shinkankaku-ha ( 新 感 覚 派 , New Sensitivity). In the late 1920s he turned to proletarian literature, professed Marxism and became a member of the communist party. He was imprisoned from 1933 to 1935 and then resigned from the Communist Party. He became known with novels such as Tsuna no ue no shōjo (1927) and Aijō no mondai (1931).

literature

• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 490 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• William Jefferson Tyler: Modanizumu as the Multiple Self: Doppelgangers, Alter Egos, and Nonessentialism . In: William Jefferson Tyler (ed.): Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913-1938 . University of Hawaii Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8248-3242-1 , pp. 331 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Digital copies of his works at Aozora (Japanese)

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