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Shimao Toshio's Travels Into the Other Realm

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  • Nina Habjan Villarreal

    (University of Tokyo)

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This presentation will focus on the travels and experiences of the Japanese writer Shimao Toshio (1917-1986) in Eastern Europe. I will explore how Shimao, as an author known for his works that redefine the Japanese I-novel in the sometimes surrealist, dreamlike ways, approaches the genre of non-fiction, using it to further explore his dreamlike narratives in the novels published after his travels abroad. I will particularly focus on his travelogue "Yume no kage wo motomete" ("Seeking the Shadows of Dreams," 1975) and his semi-autobiographical novel "Hi no utsuroi" ("The Passing of Days," 1977), seeing how the narrative of his travel writing continues to play a role in the novel, where the boundaries between the two realities and the narrators describing and experiencing them begin to blur.

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  • Nina Habjan Villarreal, 0000. "Shimao Toshio's Travels Into the Other Realm," Proceedings of International Academic Conferences 14916720, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:14916720
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