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Shōhei Ōoka (Japanese: 大岡 昇平, romanized: Ōoka Shōhei; March 6, 1909 – December 25, 1988) was a Japanese novelist, literary critic, and lecturer and translator of French literature who was active during the Shōwa period.
Ōoka Shōhei was a Japanese novelist famous for his depiction of the fate of Japanese soldiers during World War II. Ōoka studied French literature at Kyoto University and was profoundly influenced as a writer by Stendhal, whose works he translated into Japanese.
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This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Fires on the Plain is set on the island of Leyte in the Philippines during World War II, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammer blows of the American landings.
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May 1, 2001 · Fires on the Plain is set on the island of Leyte in the Philippines during World War II, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammer blows of the American landings. Within this broader disintegration is another, that of a single human being, Private Tamura.
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Jun 21, 2012 · Topics. Modern fiction, Literary Criticism, Literature: Classics, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literary, Reference, World War, 1939-1945. Publisher. Boston : Tuttle Publishing. Collection.
Fires on the Plain ( Japanese: 野火 Nobi) is a Yomiuri Prize -winning novel by Ooka Shohei, published in 1951. It describes the experiences of a soldier of the routed Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines, as part of the Battle of Leyte and the Battle of Ormoc Bay, at the end of 1944, towards the final months of World War II .
