Shijo No Sketch Hihyo No Sokkyo

[Machine Translation] This is a collection of poetic criticisms that truly "say so much that needs to be written down". Yuji Shimpo has been focusing his criticism on the experience of being penetrated by the "Absolute" through the work of such modern Japanese figures as Kanzo Uchimura, the lone Christian, and Seiichi Hatano, the philosopher of religion, who have observed the true nature of faith. Witnessing the end of the modern movement that "leveled" everything to the level of "human beings," Yuji Shimpo has compiled a collection of his masterpieces of criticism, in which he has vividly and simply described the response to literature, thought, and music found in the light from "above.

真に「書くべき程の事」を書き留めた詩的批評文集。孤高の基督者・内村鑑三、宗教哲学者・波多野精一ら、近代日本において信仰の本質を看取した存在を通して、“絶対なるもの”に貫かれる経験を批評の軸としてきた新保祐司。すべてを“人間”の水準へと「水平」化し尽くす近代という運動の終焉を目の当たりにして、「上」からの光に照らして見出された文学・思想・音楽の手応えを簡明かつ鮮烈に素描した、珠玉の批評を集成。