HEMEDEN

HEMEDEN: Hemeden (Cross-Eyed Den, 1895) was the first novel written by Hirotsu Ryuro. Hemeden, followed shortly by Hirotsu’s second novel, Kurotokage (Black Lizard, 1895), established a new Japanese literary genre, the serious novel. Hemeden captures the gloomy life of Den, a cross-eyed, grotesquely deformed dwarf. Taunted by peers and the world at large, hardworking and amiable Den falls in love with a young girl named Ohama. Ohama’s cousin deceives Den into paying him to help Den’s chances with Ohama, and Den is eventually driven to commit robbery and murder to pay his debts. Den is sent to the gallows, clinging to the illusion that Ohama loves him.

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Hirotsu Ryurō — Infobox Writer name = Hirotsu Ryurō caption = Hirotsu Ryurō birthdate = birth date|1861|7|15|df=y birthplace = Nagasaki, Japan deathdate = death date and age|1928|10|25|1861|7|15|df=y deathplace = Tokyo Japan (?) occupation = Writer genre =… … Wikipedia
CROSS-EYED DEN — See HEMEDEN … Japanese literature and theater
HIROTSU RYURO — (1861–1928) Hirotsu Ryuro, given name Naoto, was a Meiji novelist famous for his tragic novels. Born in Nagasaki, he traveled to Tokyo in 1874 to study German and then turned to writing in 1885 after serving four years in the Ministry of… … Japanese literature and theater
KUROTOKAGE — Kurotokage (Black Lizard, 1895) was Hirotsu Ryuro’s second novel. Following the lead of his first serious novel, Hemeden (Cross Eyed Den, 1895), the story follows the life of Otsuga, a woman with tragically repulsive black blotches on her face … Japanese literature and theater
SERIOUS NOVELS — Closely related to tragic novels, the term shinkoku shosetsu denotes a genre of fiction that emerged from narrative experiments with social realism written by authors in the early 1900s. These novels deal realistically with the state of… … Japanese literature and theater
NAIT — Dağ. * Hemeden kabilelerinden bir kabile … Yeni Lügat Türkçe Sözlük

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