Kazutami Watanabe (渡邊一民, Watanabe Kazutami; January 5, 1932 – December 21, 2013) was a Japanese scholar and translator of French literature.
Biography
Watanabe was born in Tokyo. He graduated from the Literature Department, School of French Studies of the University of Tokyo in 1955. After earning his Ph.D. at the same university, he became a lecturer at Rikkyo University's General Education Department in 1960, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1963. In 1965, he became an assistant professor at the School of French Literature of the same university, and in 1970 he became a full professor. From 1981 to 1983, he served as the dean of the Literature Department. After his retirement in 1997, he was named professor emeritus.
His wife, Hitomi, is the eldest daughter of Shūichi Sakō, a diplomat. Watanabe died at the age of 81 from sepsis in December 2013.
Awards
- Kamei Katsu Award (1982) for his book on Kunio Kishida.
Selected Writings
- 神話への反抗 (Rebellion Against Myth, 1968)
- ドレーフュス事件 政治体験から文学創造への道程 (The Dreyfus Affair: From Political Experience to Literary Creation, 1972)
- 文化革命と知識人 (Cultural Revolution and Intellectuals, 1972)
- 近代日本の知識人 (Modern Japanese Intellectuals, 1976)
- フランス文壇史 (History of French Literary Circles, 1976)
- 西欧逍遥 (Wandering in Western Europe, 1978)
- 岸田国士論 (On Kunio Kishida, 1982)
- ナショナリズムの両義性 若い友人への手紙 (The Ambiguity of Nationalism: Letters to a Young Friend, 1984)
- 林達夫とその時代 (Tatsuo Hayashi and His Era, 1988)
- 故郷論 (On Hometown, 1992)
- フランスの誘惑 近代日本精神史試論 (The Temptation of France: An Essay on Modern Japanese Intellectual History, 1995)
- 〈他者〉としての朝鮮 文学的考察 (Korea as the "Other": A Literary Examination, 2003)
- 中島敦論 (On Atsushi Nakajima, 2005)
- 武田泰淳と竹内好 (Taijun Takeda and Yoshimi Takeuchi, 2010)
Selected Translations
- Guillaume Apollinaire, Complete Works (first volume, with Shintaro Suzuki, 1959)
- Pierre Miquel, L'Affaire Dreyfus (1960)
- Simone Weil, Writings (1967–1968)
- Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (with Akira Sasaki, 1974)
- Georges Bernanos, Writings, Vol. 2: Les grands cimetières sous la lune (1977)
- Simone Weil, Philosophy Lectures (with Takanori Kawamura, 1981)
