Shōzō Numa (), born in 1926 with Hataka, Japan, is the mysterious author of an astonishing novel: Yapou, human cattle . A work of Science-fiction Masochiste rather intended for the amateurs of Sade and, especially, of Sacher Masoch that with the fans of S.F.

This book tells the history of a young couple (Japanese and allemande) which, following the crash landing of a space-time vessel come from the future, find themselves in a world dominated by white women who impose, inter alia, the port of the Ceinture of chastity to their husband. In this company, the descendants of Japanese (yapous) are drawn up and more or less modified genetically to be useful like animals (dog, horse), sexual toys (penilinger…), alive pieces of furniture, human toilets… Our Japanese “hero” compared to a yapou will be castrated and subjected to its old been engaged.

Although it is a work underground, this book, become worship, was sold to more than one million specimens in Japan. It was the subject of two adaptations as cartoons (Manga S) and it is told that Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch would have been interested by its adaptation to the cinema. The first volume that was not tardily translated into French and is appeared in the hexagon at the end of 2005; this unfinished novel, in 3 volumes, started to be published in serials in a review underground in 1956!

The author of this OLNI (Literary Object Not Identified) explains in the postface which this work is the consequence of sexual maltreatment that it underwent on behalf of a white woman when he was prisoner of war. Shōzō Numa is pseudo ( Numa means marsh in Japanese) and that is not known (or those) which hides behind; this anonymity enabled him, in particular, to escape the death threats from the Japanese extreme-right-hand side.

The Prix Sade 2006 was allotted unanimously, on Friday, November 17, in Shōzō Numa for Yapou, human cattle .

External bonds

• Site on the Japanese literature

• Site of the editor

See too

• BDSM

• sexual Masochism
• Loving Female Authority
• Price Sade