Newborn

About This Novel

This book tells the story of the protagonist, Shikichi Kishimoto, who was troubled by his love affair with his niece Setsuko (known as the "rebirth" incident in history), and tried to get rid of the predicament and purify his soul to gain a new life. Judging from the author's own situation, the protagonist is the author's own portrayal. This work writes about what happened in the seven years from the first year of Taisho, when he was forty-one years old, to the seventh year of Taisho, so it has a strong feature of self-confession. This is a work that exposes the incest incident that the writer personally experienced. It was published in a chaotic period before the incident was over. The publication of the novel promoted the development of the incident and achieved its final resolution. From the perspective of the novel's panoramic depiction of life and the completely reversible relationship between its plot and reality, it can be said that it presents the private nature of naturalism to readers in the most thorough form.

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