| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
RHC-Jap O575 1954 |
| Status |
Item withdrawn |
| Barcode |
RHC-J-2014-0125 |
| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Ooka, Shohei
|
| Title Statement |
- Title - A Wildfire
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ooka, Shohei
|
| Varying Form Of Title |
- Title proper/short title - Nobi
|
| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Tokyo :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Sinchousha,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1954
|
| Content Type |
|
| Media Type |
|
| Carrier Type |
|
| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "The story is set in Leyte, Philippines where the defeat of Japanese Imperial army became clear at the end of Asia Pacific war. A private Tamura was exiled a unit because of contracting tuberculosis. And he was also refused staying in an army field hospital and banished from there because of a critical shortage of food. Therefore, he was forced to wander in the wilderness where wild fire burned. He ate bloodsuckers which sucked his blood because of suffering from hunger. He eventually was driven by passion to eat a body of his friendly soldier. However, he desisted from eating human flesh. This book is war literature to explain the reason why private Tamura did not cannibalism." - Masuko Takehisa
- Summary, etc. - この物語の舞台は、太平洋戦争末期、日本の敗北が決定的となったフィリピン戦線のレイテ島である。田村一等兵は結核のために部隊を追われ、野戦病院からも食糧不足のために入院を拒否され、追放される。そして野火の広がる原野を彷徨う田村は、極度の飢えに襲われ、自分の血を吸った蛭まで食べた挙句に、友軍の屍に目を向ける。しかしながら、彼は人食いにはなれなかった。本書はその理由をたどる戦争文学である。- Masuko Takehisa
|
