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... Northrop Frye). Their power of significant action is limited, and we have, in Frye’s words, “the sense of looking down on a scene of. . . frustration [and] absurdity.”l The single exception is Kyo Gisors of La Condition humaine, a Eurasian, who alone seems to fit Frye’s de- scription of the high...

.... In this respect Malraux’s novel has an “Asian” quality about it that is fully in keeping with both its principal setting, Shanghai, and its hero, the half-Japanese Kyo. Lethal revolutionary act and sustained philosophical deliberation or debate take turns advancing the narrative. But the events...

... no sekai,” in Bai-­baishun to Nihon bungaku, ed. Okano Yukie et al. (Tokyo: To¯kyo¯do¯ Shuppan, 2002), 71 – 80. 88 MLQ March 2011 The Drifting Cloud (Ukigumo, 1886 – 89), to the aspiring writer Yoshiko in Tayama Katai’s naturalist novella...