The Age of the Japanese Romantic School - Yasuda Yojuro Collection, Shingakusha Yojuro Yasuda #YojuroYasuda #Yojuro_Yasuda #Books #JapaneseLiterature/CriticismAndEssays #JapaneseRomanticSchool ------------------------------------------------- (Contents) Published by Shibusawa Publishing in December 1969, this book compiles articles serialized in "Kokubungaku Kaishaku to Kansho" (Interpretation and Appreciation of National Literature) from the April 1967 issue over twenty-six installments. Yasuda, who began his full-fledged writing career through "Cogito," which could be considered the successor to the coterie magazine he started with his classmates from Osaka High School, founded the "Japanese Romantic School" in 1935 with Takao Nakatani and Kichiro Kamei. The magazine later saw the participation of Haruo Sato, Sakutaro Hagiwara, Shizuo Ito, Osamu Dazai, and others, evolving into a major literary movement. This book, written thirty years after the war, is a memoir recalling his friendships, the whereabouts of literary figures, and the circumstances of the literary world at the time. However, it differs from mere literary history materials or testimonies of the era, and should be considered a confident memoir that attempts to reflect on and confirm the quality of the literary arts he aimed for. (Table of Contents) An Era of Literature Around "Cogito" The Temperament of the Japanese Romantic School The Thought of the End of Modernity The Argument of the Japanese My "Japanese Literature"