Haniya monologue male high-INOKUMA string Ichiro Toru Takemitsu in front of the camera (Shueisha Shinsho) (2000) ISBN: 4087200310 [Japanese Import]

by 埴谷雄高

Paperback Shinsho

About the author

Yutaka Haniya is a Taiwan born (then a Japanese colony) Japanese author. He was born to a samurai family. He had a bad start in life, living an enfeebled childhood, he got tuberculosis in his teens.

He was interested in anarchism for a while in his younger years, but round up joining the Japanese Communist Party in 1931 at the age of 22 years of age. He became its Agriculture Director the following year and was promptly arrested. While in the prison's hospital, he devoted himself to studying Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

After the Second World War Yutaka Haniya founded the magazine, Kindai Bungaku (Modern Literature), perhaps the best thing Haniya got out of this business adventure is the discovery and publishing of Kōbō Abe who subsequently joined Haniya's avant-garde group Yoru no Kai (Night Group)

Haniya was a prolific writer; after his death, Kodansha published his complete works in a set of 19 volumes. He won the Tanizaki Prize in 1970 for his collection Black Horses in the Darkness and other stories.