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Nakazawa Keiji, Hiroshima: The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen

This autobiography, first written in 1987 and revised in 1995, has been recently translated into English by Richard Minear (2010). It makes a significant contribution to the body of works dealing with the destruction of Hiroshima, an unpleasant subject for many, but, like the Nazi Holocaust, an experience that must be remembered. Minear’s translation provides useful apparatuses, including maps of Hiroshima, an interview with the author, and excerpts from Barefoot Gen, Nakazawa’s well-known manga that fictionalizes his experiences as a seven-year-old boy growing up in Hiroshima. Gen (pronounced with a hard “g”) represents the “composition of humanity,” Nakazawa explains in his autobiography, “someone who wouldn’t let war and an atomic bomb happen again” (163). The manga, begun in 1973, now consists of some 2,500 pages, ten volumes of which have been translated into English. It has steadily grown in popularity over the years, spawning two animated movies, three live-action films, a television drama, and even an opera and play. Like Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, it is an important visual depiction of war and inhumanity.