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Three houses opposite the neighboring two

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Roman Nikolaevich Kim (c. 1899 – 1967) was a Soviet writer of Korean descent, a prominent Japanologist, and a former OGPU (NKVD) counterintelligence officer. Born into a family of Korean nationalists who emigrated to Russia, he was sent to Japan for education and graduated from an elite university there. Subsequently, his love for Japanese culture and simultaneous rejection of its politics became dominant themes in his life and work.

In his essays, Kim describes the cultural fever that gripped the new Japan and its preparations for war. He is preoccupied with the country's "diabolically energetic" social life: European influence and the spiritual quests of youth, dizzying fashion trends, literary scandals, and class conflicts. The collection includes the pamphlet "Three Houses Opposite the Neighboring Two" (1934), the glosses "Legs to the Snake" (1927), as well as selected articles, reviews, short stories, and translations. The book is accompanied by a detailed commentary by Japanologist Anna Slashcheva and an article by Kim's biographer, Alexander Kulanov.
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