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Truth from a Lie - Documentary, Detection, and Reflexivity in Abe Kobo's Realist Project (Hardcover)
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Truth from a Lie - Documentary, Detection, and Reflexivity in Abe Kobo's Realist Project (Hardcover)
Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
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Critics typically regard Abe Kobo (1924-93) as writing against
realism, due to his avant-garde aesthetics that challenged the
Naturalist realism dominating the literary mainstream and the
Socialist realism of the orthodox Left in postwar Japan. He
considered his work thoroughly realist, however, and starting in
the early 1950s in a series of avant-garde art and literary groups,
he championed the possibility of a vital, contemporary realism that
challenged the reader to question the "reality" represented in the
text through increasingly self-conscious writing strategies.
Through a reassessment of the texts in which he worked out his
theory of realism, this study traces the development of his
commitment to making "truth from a lie" to fiction, drama, and
reportage that openly display their artifice. Key argues that the
reflexivity of Abe's texts, which lay bare their own processes of
artificial construction in order to reflect how our everyday sense
of reality is constructed and maintained, created a critical space
for metatextual ideas that were not acknowledged by the literary
establishment of his time and have yet to be recognized by critics
today. Undergirding his theory and practice of realism was a
critique of conventional documentary and of the classic detective
story. The texts examined here expose the degree to which the
documentarian and the detective are active fabricators of meaning
rather than neutral observers of fact. By paying close attention to
the tension between the documentary and the fictive in Abe's works,
Key draws out the ethical implications of his documentary approach,
arguing persuasively that the documentary qualities of his writing,
such as its valorization of objectivity over psychologism and the
realm of "concrete things" over abstraction are strategies for
challenging the dominant assumptions about what constitutes good
ethics and good art, as well as the relationship between these two
spheres. Truth from a Lie explores the ways in which Abe put
documentary and the de
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