![]() ![]() He is not as radical, perhaps, as Mishima, and his style is not as flowery. ![]() Nonetheless, in this novel, Tōson writes with the clarity of Kawabata and the assurance of Tanizaki. It is a historical novel which suffers from localization, so dense with cultural and historical references as to be quite baffling to an outsider. His masterpiece Before the Dawn is 800 pages of elegant, Balzacian description depicting the clash between East and West during a crucial turning point in Japanese history. Nonetheless, in Shimazaki Tōson is an impressive, subtle, early Twentieth Century author, who set out to portray rural, ordinary lives in a meaningful way through powerful fiction. ![]() ![]() Shimazaki Tōson is an impressive, subtle, early Twentieth Century author, who set out to portray rural, ordinary lives in a meaningful way through powerful fiction. ![]()
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