/lit/ - Literature

>>19151912
>Not reading the Samurai Junger letters, published only last year

>>19151850
This was written by Marinetti's buddy about how great trench fighting is.

http://tikhanovlibrary.com/PDF/TheItalianWarAndTheJapaneseSamuriEbook.pdf
>The Italian War as Seen by a Japanese. Harukichi Shimoi was one of the most interesting iconoclasts to emerge from the first world war. An Italophilia and frequenter of bohemian secret societies in Japan, Shimoi became obsessed with Dante and spent six years teaching himself Italian so he could read the Divina Commedia in its own language. He then traveled to Italy to work as a Japanese professor at the University of Naples where he befriended many of the most important people in Italy, including the poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio who cameos Shimoi in several of his novels. During the Great War Shimoi visited the front lines, and it is from those experiences that this book was born. Shimoi later participated in the march on Fiume, and acted as an administrator of the Free State of Fiume during the year long siege between D’Annunzio’s city state and the rest of the world. Shimoi also became an Arditi— the shock troops of the Italian army— and instructed many of his fellow soldiers in the art of Karate. This book is composed of several letters Shimoi wrote from the front lines of WW1, as well as letters and statements from his friends. It was originally published in 1919 as La Guerra Italiana Vista da un Giapponese,and translated into English by Michael Paz in 2020.
I don't like to shill it on here like some of our resident authors, but I translated this book for you guys and it's not half bad either.
If you want a physical copy you can buy it here:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/harukichi-shimoi-and-michael-paz/the-italian-war-as-seen-by-a-japanese/paperback/product-megpyn.html?page=1&pageSize=4
I've been working on some other translation projects lately and when I'm finished you frens will be the first to hear about it.

>The Italian War as Seen by a Japanese. Harukichi Shimoi was one of the most interesting iconoclasts to emerge from the first world war. An Italophilia and frequenter of bohemian secret societies in Japan, Shimoi became obsessed with Dante and spent six years teaching himself Italian so he could read the Divina Commedia in its own language. He then traveled to Italy to work as a Japanese professor at the University of Naples where he befriended many of the most important people in Italy, including the poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio who cameos Shimoi in several of his novels. During the Great War Shimoi visited the front lines, and it is from those experiences that this book was born. Shimoi later participated in the march on Fiume, and acted as an administrator of the Free State of Fiume during the year long siege between D’Annunzio’s city state and the rest of the world. Shimoi also became an Arditi— the shock troops of the Italian army— and instructed many of his fellow soldiers in the art of Karate. This book is composed of several letters Shimoi wrote from the front lines of WW1, as well as letters and statements from his friends.

First hand account of the Italian front, author was friends with D'Annunzio and Mussolini.
Not really theoretical at all, but its a good primary source on what Italy was like at the time. The author thought fascism was just a logical extension of Italian unification and nation-building.

Remember that healthy independent publishing starts with your support.

Plz buy my book.

>reading right-wing neckbeard fantasies when you could read about a literal Japanese samurai proto-fascist fighting in the trenches of the first world war
Of all the books you could have shilled you could have shilled a good one.

Harukichi Shimoi, a Japanese Samurai who was buddies with Mussolini and D'Annunzio, thought fascism was just the logical continuation of the risorgimento. Not really about socialism so much as it was about Italian unification and promotion of a distinct Italian culture.

I translated his book "la guerra italiana vista da un giapponese" and published it on Lulu. It's about his experiences fighting with the Arditi during WW1. You might enjoy it.
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/harukichi-shimoi-and-michael-paz/the-italian-war-as-seen-by-a-japanese/paperback/product-megpyn.html?page=1&pageSize=4

You can read some exerts here: >>/lit/thread/S18477402
It was a really interesting period in history. It's always cool to see other people on /lit/ who are interested in Italian fascism, because it's definitely been badly maligned postwar thanks to Mussolini's mistake of allying with Hitler.

Do original translations count?
>>/lit/thread/S18477402

>>18496088
Let me take this moment to shill my book.

For the last month I've been working on translating this book from Italian. Its finally done and I uploaded it to Lulu. It's written by Harukichi Shimoi, a Samurai and friend of D'Annunzio who served with the arditi in the first world war and later worked as a spy passing messages between D'Annunzio and Mussolini during the Fiume experiment.

It's quite beautiful but hasn't ever been published in English before. I'll be posting a couple of exerts from the book and also talking about Harukichi Shimoi ITT.