Kyūsaku Yumeno

Kyūsaku Yumeno () is a writer Japan board born with Fukuoka the January 4th 1889 and died in Tōkyō the March 11th 1936). Its true name was Naoki Sugiyama .

His/her father, Shigemaru Sugiyama was a discussed character: political agitator, writer, newspaper editor, coal exporter… Whereas Yumeno was two years old, his/her mother was repudiated by her paternal grandparents. It was then his/her grandfather, Saburobei Sugiyama, which took care of its education (it made him inter alia studying the No). Yumeno proved to be an exceptionally gifted child but of a very low health. With adolescence, it impassioned for the police literature anglo-saxone, which it read directly in English. He undertook studies of literature in Tōkyō, but had to stop them because his/her father, who had remarié himself meanwhile, recalled it to Fukuoka. In fact, his/her mother-in-law had assembled an intrigue in order to dispossess it of her heritage. It was a question of making it pass for insane. In order to escape asylum, it initially had to set out again for Tōkyō and to work as workman and finally to be made itinerant monk. One day, he learned the death from the half-brother who was to inherit family fortune in his place and decided to return in Fukuoka. Little time after, it Maria. He worked in the family farm and as journalist in a newspaper which belonged to his/her father. At that time (end of the Years 1910), also its first texts appeared (a test on No, of the news, a serialized story…). In 1926, it obtained the second price ex æquo contest of the review of police literature Shinseinen with the Drum of Ayakashi (あやかしの鼓). It is from there that it used the pseudonym of Kyūsaku Yumeno, which means dreamer in Patois of Kyūshū. He collaborated then regularly with Shinseinen . In all, he wrote in ten years about fifty news, ten novels and the famous Dogra Magra (ドグラ・マグラ Dogura will magura ), that he put more than ten years to write. This novel was finally published in 1935, year which was also for the author that of died of his father. Yumeno died less than one year, reached later of a cerebral Hémorragie whereas it was in Tōkyō to regulate the businesses of his father. Dogra Magra was redécouvert in 1962 by the philosopher Shunsuke Tsurumi, who compared his author with Kafka and Poe. This novel was transposed to the screen.

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Site of the translator of '' Dogra Magra ''

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