postwar literature is self-destructive losers countries. The recognition of the loss is accompanied by a feeling of self-incrimination it takes to overcome. Sebald was not only a great writer, but also helped to overcome the difficult literary fabric woven by the guilt and fears of authors such as Heinrich Boll and Gunter Grass. Mishima Yukio did the same to the literature of Japan but where did the almost impossible task of raising the spirit of a proud and ancient people, who had threatened his past and his future in the Western world. That is, Germany had Europe, after all were European, Japan in change must confront the fear of being absorbed by the Western world, after the war, he felt the momentum and the law needed to colonize.
Amid all this must be understood short novels Grave of the Fireflies and American Algae, which by Akiyuki Nosaka was awarded the Naoki Prize in 1968. These two harrowing accounts of war. In the first difficulties loss and hardship eradicate almost any gesture of solidarity and love. In the second a woman is a nasty ridiculous claim of Japanese society to approach the American world. Her husband faced the bizarre situation created by it, in a bizarre and equally bitter. In one case the Japanese society has dehumanized and struggle just to survive, the second is facing a sense of loss of identity. In both novels and short Nosaka is masterful. And we know the fortune of brevity. Might have deserved better Akutagawa Prize, but not required to separate a people from seeing the pain generated by their miseries, who reward the evidence. (Pfa)
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