Rereading Yoshikichi Furui

Yoshikichi Furui, a representative novelist of his generation, passed away last month. Born in 1937, he was the same age as Thomas Pynchon, whose novels are the main subject of my academic field. It is said that Furui kept writing energetically, even though he struggled with illness near the end of his life. The other day, I had a chance to talk with editors who knew the author well and had some anecdotes about his private life. Sharing their memories, they let me know how he was adored and loved by people in the literary world. Such reminiscences have a power to urge you to read the author’s works again. The list of his novels I want to reread is becoming longer too.