@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002061,
 author = {Liman, Anthony  v and LIMAN, Anthony V},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {6},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {pdf, lbuse's Koi (Carp) is an important story, one that offers a key to the understanding of the dense symbolism of his later works. His craft was still in the making when he wrote it and the seams and stitches that are skillfully concealed in mature stories like Henro yado (Pilgrim's Inn) can be detected here and there by a careful eye. Western readers usually perceive the story as a 'charming little tale', or perhaps as a naive esquisse by a young writer.
Although the story is slight in volume and the author himself admits that it was written in one night  - almost in 'one flowing sweep of the brush' as Kobayashi Hideo suggests - it is a text of pōetic rather than prosaic intensity, a prose - pōem of great artistic sophistication. Far from a naive youthful sketch, the story appears to me as a careful and subtle polemics with certain symbolist techniques confronting lbuse as a young artist. My paper analyzes possible echōes of Western symbolism in Koi and examines Ibuse's unique compromise between Western and Japanese techniques of symbolic representation.},
 pages = {156--166},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表（2）　シンボリズムの流行と井伏の『鯉』},
 year = {1983},
 yomi = {リーマン, アンソニー  v}
}