Background
He opposed Shishosetsu, or autobiographical novels, and advocated a "literature of possibility."
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This is a short story collections of famous Japanese writer Sakunosuke Oda. The story describes the writing experience and emotions of an un-famous and poor writer which written on 1946. it's more like a story that writer wrote about himself.Tells some writers in a high pressure during the militarism of the war and whole story just tells the true life of people in the war.
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He opposed Shishosetsu, or autobiographical novels, and advocated a "literature of possibility."
Sakunosuke Oda studied at the Third Higher School in Kyoto without graduating from it.
Oda’s writing career spans both prewar and postwar Japan. A native of Osaka, he wrote mostly of life in that city and the customs and manners of the common people there. In 1939, his story "Zokushu" was a candidate for the Akutagawa Prize. The following year, Oda published "Meoto Zenzai".
Oda also wrote radio drama scenarios and submitted a script to a magazine that was later made into the film "Kaette kita otoko" (The Returnee, 1944), by Kawashima Yuzo (it was the director's commercial debut). In addition to his fiction, Oda wrote many critical essays, most notably "Kanosei no bungaku" (The Literature of Possibility, 1946).
In 1947, after suffering from a lung hemorrhage, Oda died in Tokyo Hospital.
In 1963, a monument was erected by Oda's friends and colleagues near Hozenji Temple in Osaka. Hozenji Yokocho and its surrounding alleys are one of the main settings in Meoto Zenzai.
In 1983, under the sponsorship of the Osaka Bungaku Shinkokai, a literary prize was established in Oda's name to commemorate the 70th anniversary of his birth and with the aim of carrying on the long tradition of Kansai literature. It is awarded annually to an outstanding work of fiction by a new author.
An autographed photograph of Oda hangs in the Osaka restaurant Jiyuken. Jiyuken opened as a coffee and snack shop in 1910, and has become known for its style of "curry rice". It is mentioned in Oda's writings. The inscription says that Oda has died, but has left us some of the good flavor of curry rice in his writing. The photograph shows Oda apparently writing while seated at a table in Jiyuken.
(This is a short story collections of famous Japanese writ...)
He opposed Shishosetsu, or autobiographical novels, and advocated a "literature of possibility."
