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Includes Yasu Inoue's three works: "Shotgun", "Bullfighting" and "Heather on Mount Hira". "Shotgun" is Yasushi Inoue's famous work. The core of the novel is the love between Ayako, Sanosuke and Midoriko. The three protagonists are all unfortunate. Under the seemingly calm narration, there are vague secrets and hideous scars that have lasted for many years. "Bullfighting" is a work written by Yasushi Inoue and published in "Literary World" in December of the 24th year of Showa (1949). Yasushi Inoue won the Akutagawa Literature Prize for this work. At that time, it was in the early days after the end of World War II. Japan's national economy was on the verge of bankruptcy, inflation was rising, and people's lives were in poverty, but businessmen were making a fortune. The novel revolves around the bullfighting competition held by the Osaka Shine Evening News Company in the early post-war period. It depicts the image of Tsugami and others. Through the intrigues between the protagonist Tsugami and speculators and his love affairs, it reveals many dirty shady transactions, shows the world situation in the difficult early post-war Japan, and reflects the social reality of post-war Japan from the side. "Heather on Mount Hira" is the last short story included in this book. Inoue created the image of a stubborn old scholar Miike Shuntaro. The prototype of his image is Inoue Yasushi's father-in-law Adachi Buntaro. This short chapter outlines the old man's intellectual life, which was melodramatic but never regretted and remained as determined as ever.
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