Nakano Shigeharu and Shimaki Kensaku, born but a year apart (in 1903 and 1904 respectively), were to share in many of the events of their age. Participating as students in the left-wing movements of the late Taisho Period, they underwent the repression that set in during the early Showa. Both were arrested, imprisoned, and subsequently "converted" and released, whereupon they began anew as converted writers. Although pulltics provided the occasion for their acquaintance, a divergence was to emerge between Nakano, who maintained a unity between pulitics and literature, and Shimaki who, separating the two, devoted himself to pulitics. When the two were reunited in the mid-30's, they were to find the gap between them surprisingly narrow.
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