Odagiri Hideo

Odagiri Hideo ( Japanese 小田 切 秀雄 ; born September 20, 1916 in Tōkyō ; died May 24, 2000 ibid) was a Japanese literary critic.

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Odagiri Hideo graduated from Hōsei University , where he later became a professor. Already during his student days he and friends published the monthly sheet "Bungeigaku shiryō geppō" (文 芸 学 資料 月報) and wrote articles.

After the Pacific War ended , he joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1946 . He participated with Ara Masahito and others in the founding of the magazine “Kindai Bungaku” (近代 文学), for example “Contemporary Literature”, for which the first wave of post-war writers wrote. Odagiri became an important literary critic and a leading figure when it came to maxistic-oriented post-war literature.

Belong to Odagiri's works

• "Minshushugi bungaku ron" (民主主義 文学 論) 1948 - about "On Literature in Democracy"
• "Nihon kindai bungaku no shisō to jōkyō" (日本 近代 文学 の 思想 と 状況) 1965 - about "Idea and reality of contemporary Japanese literature"
• "Gendai bungaku-shi" (現代 文学 史) 1975 - "History of contemporary literature"
• "Watakushi to mita Shōwa no shisō to bungaku no gojūnen" (私 と 見 た 昭和 の 思想 と 文学 の 五 十年) 1983 to 1987 - "Idea and reality of 50 years of Shōwa time as I see it"

For the latter work, Odagiri received the Mainichi Culture Prize in 1988 .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Odagiri Hideo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1125.

Web links

• Biographies Odagiri Hideo in the Kotobank, Japanese

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