By 1935 Shiga Naoya had been extolled as the "God of Fiction," and his preeminence as the most revered of modern Japanese writers was established by the late 1930s. The body of Shiga's work probably e...
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In the following excepts from his book-length study of Shiga, Mathy analyzes eight of the author's most famous short stories and summarizes how his work differs from Western standards of great ...
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In the excerpt below, Makoto examines Shiga's literary aesthetic through a survey of his fictional and autobiographical writings.
More than most other contemporary Japanese novelists of imp...
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In the following excerpt, Sibley argues that the narrator of Shiga's stories is a distinct persona that, while often serving as the author's alter-ego, is separate from him. He names thi...
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In the following review, Sato offers a favorable assessment of Shiga's collection The Paper Door and Other Stories.
Naoya Shiga (1883-1971) was once described as "a god of fiction.&#x...
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In the following excerpt, Fowler surveys Shiga's novellas, particularly Wakai. He then goes on to contend that Shiga "depopulates " his fiction, showing his main characters in rel...
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In the review below, Miller admires the "truthfulness" of the pieces in this collection of Shiga's stories.
Shiga, a member of the White Birch Movement (Shirakabaha), which was...
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In the essay below, Shigekazu suggests that Shiga's revision of Shakespeare's Hamlet in "The Diary of Claudius" illustrates significant differences between Japanese and Wes...
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Naoya Shiga
Critical Essay by Francis Mathy
