ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the experience of modern women, Enchi Fumiko, with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but her philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, her intellectual capacity to view her experiences in a historical and social context, and her mastery of the art of fiction render the traditional category of 'female-school literature' totally inadequate to characterize her works. Enchi Fumiko started her literary career under the influence of the leftist movement before the war, she went through a long period of silence until she reemerged in the mid-fifties as a writer who delved deeply into the realm of the female psyche. Her interest in human sexuality is explored in 'Love in Two Lives' through her excellent use of a classical work as the structural basis of her story. In 'Love in Two Lives: The Remnant' the fictional space is expanded beyond present time and space to portray an archetypal human consciousness of sex.
