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Other writers, discontent with the standard forms of literary expression have begun to create a new genre, blurring the already eroded line between fiction and nonfiction. Shohei Ooka's The Long Slope recalls the Imperial Army's crimes of World War II through courtroom records of the Far Eastern Military Tribunal; Otohiko Kaga's Ship Without an Anchor is the story of a Japanese ambassador who was sent to America to forestall...
...Fires on the Plain (1957), which has been made into a grim movie recently released in the U.S., Author Shohei Ooka attempted a serious study of the fanaticism of the Japanese soldier. Its hero Tamura kills senselessly in the last months of the war in the Philippines. But the more revulsion he feels, the more fanatical he becomes. "All voluntary actions were forbidden to me," he reasons. "I, who had voluntarily robbed a human life of the compulsion whereby it lives, had condemned myself to an existence based entirely on compulsion-the compulsion of moving ineluctably toward my own death...
...desk with my mongrel dog at my left foot, and Ooka, my pet chimpanzee, playing with my shoelaces. A goat is walking on the roof." See FOREIGN NEWS, The Wanted American...
...jungle thickets and unloaded the heavy supplies that arrived by boat. "Hi ho. ho hum, here I am in the middle of Africa," Mark wrote his mother exultantly, typing out a letter on his portable. "I sit at my desk with my mongrel dog at my left foot, and Ooka, my pet chimpanzee, playing with my shoelaces. A goat is walking on the roof...
...Fires on the Plain, Japanese Author Shohei Ooka has written what critics in his native land think is their first well-written book about the war. The novel has sold 100,000 copies, and it is not hard to see why. In translation it has moments of obscurity, but it still conveys powerfully the gradual crackup of a war-shattered man who, in his last extremity, can relate himself neither to humanity...