Author · 1898–1947
横光利一Yokomitsu Riichi · よこみつ りいち
Yokomitsu Riichi was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer. With Kawabata Yasunari, he led the Shinkankaku-ha (New Sensationalist school) of the 1920s, which tried to renew Japanese prose with startling imagery, fragmented scenes and techniques influenced by European modernism and film. 蠅 is one of his best-known early stories. He was regarded as one of the most influential writers of his generation in Japan.
Stories by Yokomitsu Riichi
蠅 — A Fly at the Coach Station
Yokomitsu Riichi's 蠅 is a very short modernist story set at a sleepy country coach station on a scorching midsummer day. A farm woman whose son is dying in town, a pair of young runaways, a mother with a little boy, and a gentleman who has…