Unlike Tanizaki fall in love Japanese modernism, Kobayashi Takiji depicts the dark world under Japanese modernism. The things that display in The Crab Cannery Ship are totally different from Tanizaki’s Naomi. These distinctions are resulted by the development of capitalism. The poverty gap is magnified in the early stage of capitalization because of the incomplete social system. It can be noted that although the protagonists, Kawai and the workers in the ship, are in the same social level namely working class, they completely live in distinguished circumstances. For instance, Kawai makes lots of money and lives in a luxury life whereas the workers’ lives in the ship are even more terrible than the beggars. As I mentioned before, incomplete social system is the reason why these workers’ lives in suck terrible situation. From the quote we can see,
Crab cannery ships were considered factories, not ships. Therefore …show more content…
Nevertheless, according to the Komori’s Introduction, the story is based on a true event happened in 1926. Therefore, although Kobayashi has the political intention to write the novel, from my point of view, to some extent, the novel still reflects the reality at the time.
Additionally, after reading the novel, one thing I think I need to highlight is that there are lots of similarities between Kobayashi’s The Crab Cannery Ship and Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai. Both novels were published around 1930 and the styles of the writing are the new sensational style. Interestingly, rather than single protagonist, both novels have multiple or a group of protagonists. Meanwhile, both authors describe the background of the stories vividly, which gives readers the feeling of living in the stories. Finally, both novels have its own political intentions, proletarian and
Crab cannery ships were considered factories, not ships. Therefore …show more content…
Nevertheless, according to the Komori’s Introduction, the story is based on a true event happened in 1926. Therefore, although Kobayashi has the political intention to write the novel, from my point of view, to some extent, the novel still reflects the reality at the time.
Additionally, after reading the novel, one thing I think I need to highlight is that there are lots of similarities between Kobayashi’s The Crab Cannery Ship and Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai. Both novels were published around 1930 and the styles of the writing are the new sensational style. Interestingly, rather than single protagonist, both novels have multiple or a group of protagonists. Meanwhile, both authors describe the background of the stories vividly, which gives readers the feeling of living in the stories. Finally, both novels have its own political intentions, proletarian and