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Fires on the Plain
work by Ōoka Shōhei
Also known as: “Nobi”
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discussed in biography
- In Ōoka Shōhei
…best-known novel is Nobi (1951; Fires on the Plain; filmed 1952), which tells the story of Tamura, a sick Japanese soldier wandering in the Philippine jungles in the aftermath of the war who eventually goes mad and is saved by his Christian faith. The novel was widely translated and ranks…
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Japanese literature
- In Japanese literature: The postwar novel
…most powerful was Nobi (1951; Fires on the Plain) by Ōoka Shōhei, which described defeated Japanese soldiers in the Philippine jungles. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 also inspired much poetry and prose, though it was often too close to the events to achieve artistic integrity.…
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