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Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) occupies a unique place in the history of Japanese literature. Made famous by his provocative and paradoxical 1946 essay, “Daraku-ron” (The Fall), he wrote a body of fiction that remains far too little known in France, apart from a few short stories such as “Hakuchi” (The Idiot, 1946) and the novel Furenzoku satsujin jiken (Non-Serial Murders, 1948). In our uncertain, crisis-ridden world, has the time not come to rediscover this compelling figure and his multifaceted body of work?
Speakers: - Estelle Figon , a certified senior teacher of Japanese language and civilization who has taught at Ens-Psl since 2007. A scholarship recipient from the Japanese government and later from Kasumi kaikan, she lived in Tôkyô for several years. Upon returning, she worked in media and interpreting before turning to teaching. She is particularly interested in literature from the first half of the 20th century and translated Sakaguchi Ango’s novel Non-Serial Murders , published by Les Belles Lettres in 2016. She has also just published a translation of a collection of works by Hayashi Fumiko, Early Spring , with Éditions Rue d’Ulm. - Emmanuel Lozerand , a graduate of ENS de Saint-Cloud, certified senior teacher of modern literature, and professor of Japanese language and literature at Inalco. His research focuses on authors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Natsume Sôseki, Mori Ôgai, and Masaoka Shiki. His publications include Literature and National Genius: The Birth of Literary History in Late 19th-Century Japan (Les Belles Lettres, 2005; Shibusawa-Claudel Prize 2005; translated into Japanese by Iwanami shoten in 2022). He received the 2017 Konishi Translation Prize for Masaoka Shiki, A Six-Foot Sickbed (Les Belles-Lettres, 2016).
Price: Booking opens September 9
Source: paris.fr — photo: Source: Bibliothèque nationale de la Diète