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Оидзуми Кокусэки: литература и жизнь
Ōizumi Kokuseki (1893–1957) is a totally forgotten writer now, but a century ago he
was a best selling author. He was half Russian and half Japanese, who at fi rst went to school
in Moscow and then entered lyceum in Paris. Lately he continued his education in schools of
Kyoto and Tokyo. He wrote novels, autobiographies and essays, published the work on history of
Russian literature. He admired Lermontov and translated Gorky’s writings to Japanese. Ōizumi
Kokuseki was writer and intellectual, who crossed states’ boundaries and broke language barriers, he had been fed and nursed on the masterpieces of European literature and ancient Chinese
philosophy, and now it’s time for him to take his merited place in history of Japanese literature.