Beginning with his father's death in 1989 and continuing through 1993, Shuntaro Tanikawa began to make a sustained sober poetic assessment of his personal experience and became in the process more 'personal'--but never maudlin. In The Naif, we are made privy to details in the career of a human being as he moves from one stage of maturity to another.
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Beginning with his father's death in 1989 and continuing through 1993, Shuntaro Tanikawa began to make a sustained sober poetic assessment of his personal experience and became in the process more 'personal'--but never maudlin. In The Naif, we are made privy to details in the career of a human being as he moves from one stage of maturity to another.
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