Menselijke Voorwaarden by Junpei Gomikawa
Set during World War II, the novel follows a committed pacifist who, conscripted into labor in Japanese-occupied Manchuria and later Japan, struggles to preserve his conscience and humanity amid escalating brutality and bureaucratic cruelty. Through his moral dilemmas, failed reforms, and firsthand encounters with violence and deprivation, the story offers a stark, unsentimental critique of militarism, social indifference, and the compromises individuals make to survive, tracing the psychological and ethical toll of war on ordinary people.
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- Menselijke Voorwaarden
- Ningen no joken
- The Human Condition
- 人間の条件
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