The Modern Novel

Biography

Yoshikichi Furui was born in Tokyo in 1937. He studied German literature at the University of Tokyo, with a thesis on Kafka. He then taught German language and literature at the University of Kanazawa and then at Rikkyo University. In 1970 he resigned to become a full-time writer. His writing is part of the introverted generation, namely those writers who turned away from the political writing of the immediate post-war generation and wrote works which were far more introspective. He died in 2020.

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