02691cam a2200349 i 4500 1238335627 TxAuBib 20240423120000.0 010719t20011957||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780804813792 paperback 0804813795 paperback (OCoLC)47440198 TxAuBib rda eng jpn Ōoka, Shōhei, 1909-1988. Nobi English. Fires on the plain [BOOK] : a novel / by Shohei Ooka ; translated by Ivan Morris. Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, 2001. ©1957. vi, 246 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Departure -- The forest path -- Fires on the plain -- The rejects -- Purple shadows -- Night -- The roar of guns -- The river -- The moonlight -- THe crowing of the cock -- Interlude in paradise -- The symbol -- The dream -- The downhill path -- The signal fire -- The dogs -- The objects -- Du profundis -- Salt -- The rifle -- Companions -- The procession -- The rain -- Three-fork junction -- The flashes of light -- The apparition -- The flame -- The starving and the mad -- The hand -- The lilies of the field -- The fowls of the air -- The eyes -- Flesh -- Humankind -- The monkeys -- In praise of transfiguration -- Epilogue. A madman's diary ; Once more into the fires on the plain ; A dead man's writings. "This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. The book is set on the island of Leyte in the Philippines during World War II, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammer blows of the American landings. Within this larger disintegration is another, that of a single human being, Private Tamura. The war destroys each of his ties to society, one by one, until Tamura, a sensitive and intelligent man, becomes an outcast ... Nearly losing the will to survive, he hears of a port still in Japanese hands, and struggles to walk through the American lines. Unfazed by danger, he welcomes the prospect of dying, but first he loses his hope, and then his sanity. Lost among his hallucinations, Tamura comes to fancy himself an angel enjoined by God to eat no living thing - but even angels fall.". 20240423. World War, 1939-1945 Philippines Leyte Island Fiction. Soldiers Japan Fiction. Murder Fiction. War Psychological aspects Fiction. Morris, Ivan, 1925-1976, translator.