Author Profile: Entered the Proletarian Science Institute while attending the University of Tokyo in 1932, and was active in the Secretariat of the Japan Proletarian Culture League (Koppu) in 1933. In 1946, co-founded "Kindai Bungaku" with Takeo Haniya, Masato Ara, and others. Published "Shimazaki Toson" in 1947. Subsequently, engaged in "political and literary debates," "art and real life," and "pure literature debates," offering unique critiques. From 1955 to 1968, he was in charge of literary reviews for the "Mainichi Shimbun," and received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for "Bungei Jihyo" in 1963. Received the Arts Encouragement Prize for "Art and Real Life" in 1958, the Noma Literary Prize for "Various Youths" in 1975, and the Japan Art Academy Award in 1976. Other works include "Postwar Literary Criticism," "Contemporary Writers," "Between Politics and Literature," "History of Showa Literature," "History of Modern Japanese Literature," "My Postwar Literary History," "After the Pure Literature Debate," "Naoya Shiga and His Time," and "Ken Hirano Complete Works" (13 volumes, Shinchosha). His later work, "Memories of the 'Lynch Communist Party Incident'," which documented his own experiences, caused a major controversy. Content Description: What is the private novel, a unique product of modern Japanese literature? How did writers deal with the gap between the ideal of art and the reality of real life? From the perspective of this dichotomy, this book analyzes the private novels and psychological novels originating from naturalism, and explores the correlation between the private lives and works of Mori Ogai, Katai Tayama, Toson Shimazaki, Shusei Tokuda, Kafu Nagai, Naoya Shiga, and Soseki Natsume. This book, which has directed the flow of literary research, is a major achievement in postwar private novel theory. (Google Books) Table of Contents: I The Origin of the Problem The Dichotomy of the Private Novel II Mori Ogai Katai Tayama Toson Shimazaki Shusei Tokuda Kafu Nagai Naoya Shiga Soseki Natsume III Revision of the Theory of Acting Victims and Perpetrators The Artist's Freedom Recovery of Everydayness Love and Egoism Are Scars Healed? This is "Art and Real Life" by Ken Hirano, winner of the Minister of Education Award for Art Encouragement, published by Dai-Nippon Yuben-kai Kodansha, first edition in January 1958, with a slipcase. The spine of the slipcase has some yellowing, but the main body has no stains, writing, or library stamps. This work has been published in paperback editions by Shinchosha and Iwanami Shoten. Please consider purchasing, understanding that it is a 67-year-old used book.