The Broken Commandment

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The Broken Commandment

work by Shimazaki

Also known as: “Hakai”

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Shimazaki Tōson
…his major novels, Hakai (1906; The Broken Commandment), the story of a young outcast schoolteacher’s struggle for self-realization, has been called representative of the naturalist school, then the vogue in Japan, although it more clearly reflects the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau than of Émile Zola. Ie (1910–11; The Family) depicts…
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…his major novels, Hakai (1906; The Broken Commandment), the story of a young outcast schoolteacher’s struggle for self-realization, has been called representative of the naturalist school, then the vogue in Japan, although it more clearly reflects the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau than of Émile Zola. Ie (1910–11; The Family) depicts…
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