The Sound of Waves (潮騒 , Shiosai ), a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima is representative of what literary criticism, that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood?
The Sound of Waves The Sound of Waves (潮騒 , Shiosai ) is a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It is a coming-of-age story of the protagonist Shinji and his romance with Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthy ship owner Terukichi. For this book Mishima was awarded the Shincho Prize from Shinchosha Publishing in 1954. It has been adapted for film five times.
The First Generation of Postwar Writers The First Generation of Postwar Writers is a classification in Modern Japanese literature used to group writers who appeared on the postwar literary scene between 1946 and 1947.