Yasushi Inoue and Postwar Japanese Literature

Yasushi Inoue and Postwar Japanese Literature
A lecture by Hiroyoshi Sone and Film Screening

Yasushi Inoue (1907-91) was one of Japan’s most popular and prolific writers, combining literary art with entertainment. Winning the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1950, one critic described his work as ‘the gust of a refreshing breeze sent to the wasted and wearied world of sentiment after the war’. For the next 40 years he wrote both lengthy novels and short stories, from exciting love stories to historical sagas.

This lecture by Hiroyoshi Sone, Professor of Modern Japanese Literature at Nihon University and editor of the 29-volume ‘Complete Works of Yasushi Inoue’, commemorates the donation of the above work to the University of Sydney Fisher Library, by the Inoue Yasushi Foundation. The lecture will be followed by a screening of the film Kodayu ((おろしや国酔夢譚), based on one of Inoue’s novels.

When:	Wednesday, 3 May 2006 at 6 pm (Lecture commences 6:30pm sharp)
Where:	Japan Foundation Multipurpose Room
Bookings:	(02) 8239 0055 / reception@jpf.org.au Admission free. Bookings essential.