Being a writer during the Sino-Japanese War meant to admit the absurdity of accepting the authority and of being accomplice. Hino, who started his literary life during this period, was completely unconscious of the guiltiness of his own position. The result was, in spite of his independence and humanism as a writer, that he described his absurdity of complicity with the authority that had started the war. His Trilogy of the Soldiers straight for wardly presents this absurdity during the Sino-Japanese War. The tragedy in Hino's literary life is that he was almost completely unaware of the guiltiness of his position as a writer and lived a very subjective life rather than that he showed the affirmative attitude toward the war in his novels.
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