Machine (novel) explained

is a 1930 novel by the Japanese author Riichi Yokomitsu.^[1] It is one of the seminal works of modernism in Japanese literature.^[2] Set in a factory that makes metal nameplates, the story considers the effects of modern life on workers.^[3] The book's events unfold around conflicts over trade secrets kept hidden in a room in the center of the factory.^[4] Writing in 1930, Japanese literary critic Hideo Kobayashi noted that "the author of this work is not straining in the least for a new way of grasping human psychology" but concluded that the story is about "how a writer arrives at what he believes."^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Gillespie, John K.. Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts. Hiroshi. Nara. 2007. Yokomitsu Riichi's Two Machines. Lexington Books. 9780739156377.
2. Book: Keene, Dennis. Yokomitsu Riichi: Modernist. 1980. Columbia University Press. 9780231049382. registration.
3. Web site: The rise of a toxic machine named fascism. Michael. Hoffman. September 17, 2016. September 25, 2018.
4. Book: Lippit, Seiji M.. Topographies of Japanese Modernism. 208–209. Columbia University Press. 2002. 9780231125314.
5. Book: Kobayashi, Hideo. Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo-Literary Criticism, 1924-1939. Anderer. Paul. Anderer. Paul. Yokomitsu Riichi. 1995. Stanford University Press. 9780804741156.