The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle

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This collection introduces the work of Japans foremost Marxist writer Kobayashi Takiji (19031933) to an English-speaking audience providing access to a vibrant dramatic politically engaged side of Japanese literature that is seldom seen outside Japan. The volume presents a new translation of Takijis fiercely anticapitalist Kani ksena classic that became a runaway bestseller in Japan in 2008 nearly eight decades after its 1929 publication. It also offers the first-ever translations of Yasuko and Life of a Party Member two outstanding works that unforgettably explore both the costs and fulfillments of revolutionary activism for men and women. The book features a comprehensive introduction by Komori Yichi a prominent Takiji scholar and professor of Japanese literature at Tokyo University.