The Human Condition (Gomikawa novel)

The Human Condition
AuthorJunpei Gomikawa
LanguageJapanese
GenreAutobiographical novel
Publication date
1958
Publication placeJapan

The Human Condition (人間の條件, Ningen no jōken) is a six-part novel written by Junpei Gomikawa. It was first published in Japan in 1958. The novel was an immediate bestseller and sold 2.4 million copies within its first three years after being published.[1]

The novel is about the experience of the protagonist during World War II and is partly autobiographical.[1][2] The novel is critical of Japan's role in the war. According to Naoko Shimazu, the novel is unique in that it portrays Japan as the aggressor during the war, and how the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people themselves were victimized by those actions. Shimazu said that the novel was important for "purify[ing] the Japanese from their polluted past, by expressing their deeply held anger".[1]

Right-wing critics in Japan criticized the novel's "sentimental humanism".[3]

Adaptations

The novel was the basis for Masaki Kobayashi's film trilogy The Human Condition, released between 1959 and 1961.[2] It was also adapted for radio in 1958, and twice for television, first in 1962 and again in 1979, and received two manga adaptations: the first in 1983 by Seitarō Tachibana, and the second in 1988 by Shōtarō Ishinomori.[4][5]

Currently, no English translation of the novel exists.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c Shimazu, N. (2003). "Popular Representations of the Past: The Case of Postwar Japan". Journal of Contemporary History. 38 (1): 104–105. doi:10.1177/0022009403038001966. JSTOR 3180699. S2CID 144817245.(subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Kemp, P. (September 9, 2009). "The Human Condition: The Prisoner". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
  3. ^ Yoshikuni Igarashi (2002). "Review: The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan by James J. Orr". The Journal of Asian Studies. 61 (2): 730. doi:10.2307/2700340. JSTOR 2700340. S2CID 197836859.(subscription required)
  4. ^ Igarashi, Yoshikuni (2016). Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780231177702.
  5. ^ Russell, C. (2010). "Review: The Human Condition". Cineaste. 35 (3): 53–55. JSTOR 41690921.(subscription required)


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