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Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and the ever-disturbing Mishima Yukio have explored twentieth-century Japanese alienation with an unsparing eye and savage humor. In Escape from the Wasteland, Susan J. Napier examines their vivid and often perverse depiction's of sex, impotence, emperor worship, and violence. For new readers of Oe and Mishima, this is an indispensable guide. For critics and scholars, it is the benchmark study.

Japanese fiction --- Romanticism. --- Realism in literature. --- Japanese fiction. --- History and criticism. --- Mishima, Yukio, --- Ōe, Kenzaburō, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1900-1999. --- Romanticism --- Realism in literature --- History and criticism --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements