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  Shiga Naoya: "Under The Ashen Moon"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Shiga was born in 1883 at a small port near Sendai, Ishinomaki.
Due to labour complications, Shiga's mother passed away when he was around 13 years old.
Shiga Naoya's work of literary remains to be prominent, which evolves in recurring theme of obsessive childhood memories; fantasy of murder and parricide and incest wish and the death in sublimated form.
www.ucalgary.ca /~xyang/j341/shigahir1.htm   (571 words)

  
 Shiga Naoya Biography and Summary
By 1935 Shiga Naoya had been extolled as the "God of Fiction," and his preeminence as the most revered of modern Japanese writers was established by the late 1930s.
Shiga Naoya (志賀 直哉 Shiga Naoya, February 20, 1883- October 21, 1971) was a Japanese writer.
He then goes on to contend that Shiga "depopulates " his fiction, showing his main characters in relative isolation in order to better explore the nature of personal experience.
www.bookrags.com /Shiga_Naoya   (224 words)

  
  The Paper Door and Other Stories by Shiga Naoya; ; Shiga Naoya
"[Shiga wrote] a number of short stories that are nearly perfect in their simplicity, directness, and mastery of subject matter."
Lane Dunlop's masterly translation of seventeen of Shiga's finest stories has provided English readers their first overview of the author's work.
Throughout his long life (he died in 1971) and after, he has remained for Japanese people one of the most revered of all modern writers.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231121571.HTM   (256 words)

  
 Shiga Naoya Biography
Shiga Naoya was born on February 20, 1883, in the town of Ishimaki on Honshu, Japan’s largest island.
Shiga’s mother died when he was thirteen, and his father remarried not long after.
Fortunately, Shiga had a good relationship with his new stepmother, which he wrote about in the story ‘‘Haha no hi to atarashii...
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 Shiga Naoya -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Shiga Naoya (志賀 直哉 Shiga Naoya, February 20,1883 - October 21,1971) was a (Click link for more info and facts about Japanese writer) Japanese writer.
He garnered praise from the likes of (Click link for more info and facts about Akutagawa Ryunosuke) Akutagawa Ryunosuke, but was despised by (Click link for more info and facts about Dazai Osamu) Dazai Osamu for his "sincere" style.
Later in life he was given the title shôsetsu no kamisama - "the god of Fiction" by those who admired him.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shiga_naoya.htm   (113 words)

  
 Shiga Naoya --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Born into an aristocratic samurai family, Shiga was taken by his parents to live with his paternal grandparents in Tokyo in 1885.
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 Izumi Kyoka: Saint of Mt. Koya (116 pages)
Stephen W. Kohl is an associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of Oregon, where he has taught since 1972.
He has published numerous translations of modern Japanese literature, including works by Nagai Kafu, Shiga Naoya, Inoue Yasushi, and others.
Kohl has written a study of the haiku poet Matsuo Basho and his travel diary Narrow Road to the Deep North.
www.intangible.org /Features/koya/koyahome.html   (174 words)

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