Japan's Threepenny Opera

Japan's Threepenny Opera (日本三文オペラ, Nihon Sanmon Opera) is a novel by Takeshi Kaiko in 1959. The name was derived from Bertold Brecht's Threepenny Opera and in a way is its variant, in the Japanese setting. The novel seemingly has no positive heroes, it is intentionally anti-aesthetical, but the reader feels sympathy for these people struggling for life in the miniature copy of the capitalist society with all its attributes: division of labour, exploitation, hard toil and the dream to get rich quick.

Japan's Threepenny Opera

Japan's Threepenny Opera (日本三文オペラ, Nihon Sanmon Opera) is a novel by Takeshi Kaiko in 1959. The name was derived from Bertold Brecht's Threepenny Opera and in a way is its variant, in the Japanese setting. The novel seemingly has no positive heroes, it is intentionally anti-aesthetical, but the reader feels sympathy for these people struggling for life in the miniature copy of the capitalist society with all its attributes: division of labour, exploitation, hard toil and the dream to get rich quick.