[Machine Translation] The era of the private novel is over, but we have not gone so far as to deny our own lives. Can we deny pure literature without pursuing the question of what life is? Writers of pure literature have thoroughly thought about "life. Life is within oneself, and the inner life cannot be subordinated to anything, and beyond that, there is an encounter with others. What is pure literature? What has been connected by Kitamura Toruya, Shiga Naoya, Takami Jun and others.