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What is the use of literature?
Publication date: 2025/07/16
What meaning does literature hold for our lives and our society?
A novelist who earnestly confronts the human condition and continues to grapple with the problems of our time questions the very foundations of literature’s power.
Engaging with the works of predecessors such as Kenzaburō Ōe and Jakuchō Setouchi, the author traces the trajectory of his own thought across art, society, and beyond.
An essay and critical collection that invites readers to a new perspective.