Shimao Toshio's Travels Into the Other Realm

Nina Habjan Villarreal ()
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Nina Habjan Villarreal: University of Tokyo

No 14916720, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: This presentation will focus on the travels and experiences of the Japanese writer Shimao Toshio (1917-1986) in Eastern Europe. I will explore how Shimao, as an author known for his works that redefine the Japanese I-novel in the sometimes surrealist, dreamlike ways, approaches the genre of non-fiction, using it to further explore his dreamlike narratives in the novels published after his travels abroad. I will particularly focus on his travelogue "Yume no kage wo motomete" ("Seeking the Shadows of Dreams," 1975) and his semi-autobiographical novel "Hi no utsuroi" ("The Passing of Days," 1977), seeing how the narrative of his travel writing continues to play a role in the novel, where the boundaries between the two realities and the narrators describing and experiencing them begin to blur.

Keywords: Shimao Toshio; Japanese literature; Travel writing; I-novel; Dreams; Reality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 65th International Academic Conference, Venice, Nov -0001, pages 1-1

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