A series of transcribed interviews with a number of writers, titled "Sakka kushin dan" (Writers' Struggles) appeared in the literary journal Shincho gekkan, starting in 1897, ending in the following year. It had a provocative introductory statement, to the effect that these interviews revealed how "ambitious writers" made painstaking efforts to produce their works, and that "shallow readers and critics should repent deeply." This implies that the writers of the time had been pestered by critics who speculated whether the stories were based on the authors' own lives or not, and tried to make accusations. This offered a good opportunity for the writers to make public their honest opinions about the actual conditions of their lives and to fight against the critics' personal attacks. This paper focuses on the antagonistic relationships between the writers and the critics of the time that triggered the birth of the new genre of "kushindan" (tales of struggle) and analyzes the effect that the emergence of this new genre had on the critical language.
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