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Phyllis Birnbaum: Kiyosawa Kiyoshi, 11 November 1999
A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
translated by Eugene Soviak.
Princeton, 391 pp., £30, January 1999,9780691001432 Show More
translated by Eugene Soviak.
Princeton, 391 pp., £30, January 1999,
“... Finally, the translators are stingy in giving background information. In the introduction, Eugene Soviak makes a strong case for the importance of the diary, citing Kiyosawa’s analyses of Japan’s disintegration. In 1948, in the silence of a ruined country, his observations will have read very powerfully. Fifty years later, his thoughts about ... ”
