SOURCE: "Shiga Naoya: The Hero as Sage," in The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishōsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction, University of California Press, 1988, pp. 187-247.
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 relative isolation in order to better explore the nature of personal experience.
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