Banzai!

• Autor(a) principal: Germano, Tiago Dantas
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/9616
• topic: Escrita Criativa; Romance; Japão; Segunda Guerra Mundial; Ficção Histórica; Escritura Creativa; Novela; Ficción Histórica; Japón; Segunda Guerra Mundial; Creative Writing; Novel; Historical Fiction; Japan; Second World War; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

Japan, 1945. A nine aircraft squadron commanded by First Lieutenant Hajime Fujii departs from Chiran Air Base to the Pacific. Its target: any American ship they could find along the way. On this journey of no return, led by a mysterious man who is recovering from a trauma, only one pilot survives: his plane crashes into the ocean and he is rescued by the inhabitants of a small island. Mixing reality and fiction, Banzai! tells the story of this man, decades after the events that led him to join the tokkotai squadron (or, as they became known in the Western, the feared kamikaze, pilots of Japanese air forces in World War II). Going through the reminiscences of the young Kentaro Hirano, an orphan of a suicidal father, who had also offered his life to the honour of the Japanese Empire, this novel tells the unpredictable story of friendship between Hirano and Masaki, two young folks who have a dream: play baseball in a country ravaged by war, where all dreams have the same fate as their people: sacrifice, in a senseless and tragic battle in which no one knows the outcome until then. In addition to the novel, this thesis is composed of a section called Notes from the barracks, an essay about the writing process of the novel.