Flamboyant & Wild – Akiyuki Nosaka, an Award Winning Novelist Dies
Akiyuki Nosaka dies at 85.
After surviving the U.S. air raids on Kobe toward the end of World War II, Nosaka dealt with the war in many of his works.
(He was against war.)
Punching Nagisa Oshima at the award ceremony..
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The Pornographers – Akiyuki Nosaka
There is a peculiar balancing act at work in any book where the main characters are essentially criminals. Nosaka gets away with it all by making Subuyan a figure of comedy who never completely twigs to how pathetic he really is.
Nosaka is another example of a criminally undertranslated Japanese author. His best-known work in the West is not even his, per se, but the Studio Ghibli animated adaptation of his story Grave of the Fireflies.