Teihon Ango Sakaguchi Zenshu Vol. 7: Criticism I, with Monthly Report, First Edition 1967, Fuyuki-sha This volume contains most of Ango's major essays, including "On Decadence," covering his life from age 24 to 44, offering a comprehensive view of Ango's work. Contents: ◇ The Pierrot Evangelist ◇ On FARCE ◇ New Character Emotions ◇ New Literature ◇ Dostoevsky and Balzac ◇ Tani Sanzo's Quiet Novels ◇ Kiyota Should Speak for a Hundred Years ◇ Rejecting the Style of Kotan ◇ On the Japanese ◇ Realists ◇ Sakuraedacho and Others ◇ Stendhal's Style ◇ The Mirage Dialogue ◇ Dedicated to Farce ◇ Death and Humming ◇ On Writers ◇ New Iroha Karuta ◇ Just Literature ◇ My View of Japanese Culture ◇ The Man, Oi Hirosuke ◇ Speaking of the Secrets of Swordsmanship ◇ On Youth ◇ Storytelling Teacher ◇ The Propertyless of Tradition ◇ Akirame Anego ◇ A Small Essay on Gakudo ◇ Memories Before and After My First Work ◇ On Decadence ◇ Popular Writer Kafu ◇ On Desire ◇ On Decadent Literature ◇ The Man Without Legs and the Man Without a Head ◇ Hinse Zarebadons ◇ The Body Itself Thinks ◇ On Decadence, Continued ◇ On the Literature of Playwrights ◇ Popularity and Transformation ◇ On Kiyoteru Hanada ◇ Patriotic Considerations Regarding Two Go and Five Shaku ◇ Public Opinion and Myself ◇ I am Benmei ◇ On Love ◇ The Breadth and Limits of Chastity ◇ Vulgarity and Writers ◇ My Detective Novels ◇ The Literature of the Guru ◇ On Bad Wives ◇ On Mystery Novels ◇ Ideological and Others ◇ The Ideal Woman ◇ Pan Pan Girls ◇ Eyes Without Thought ◇ The Problem of New Kana Usage ◇ Impressions of Abe Sada ◇ It's Not a Matter of Length ◇ The Woman Abe Sada ◇ Words Dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor ◇ On the Second Art ◇ Yami Analects ◇ Mont Asakusa ◇ Desk, Futon, and Woman ◇ The Breath of My Thought ◇ On the Teigin Incident ◇ Words Dedicated to Mr. Shirai ◇ The Demon of Shogi ◇ My Funeral ◇ Delinquent Boys and Christ ◇ Group Meetings ◇ Watching the Games of Go Seigen ◇ Thoughts on Dazai Osamu's Suicide ◇ Shiga Naoya Has No Literary Problems ◇ Go Seigen ◇ On War ◇ European Character, Japanese Character ◇ My Go ◇ The Sentimentalism of Intellectuals ◇ I'm Already Cured ◇ Neurotic Baseball Aesthetics ◇ Post-War Newcomers ◇ Opportunistic Violence ◇ Yuki Shigeko, Become an Egoist ◇ On Mystery Novels ◇ "Utawarai" Culture ◇ My View of Life ◇ A Small Essay on Egoism ◇ Others ● Commentary: Takeo Okuno ● On Writers: Kazuo Dan ● Explanation The box has sun damage (mainly on the spine), stains, crushed areas at the top and bottom of the spine, slight peeling of the letters on the spine of the book, some soiling on the top, bottom, and side edges, slight stains on the inside back cover, and writing such as the purchase date on the colophon, but the text is in good condition. The monthly report has some sun damage. A band of text by Jun Ishikawa is pasted on the front endpaper.