1996, Kinʼya Tsuruta, editor, Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing: Proceedings of a Workshop at the National University of Singapore, December 1994, page 92:
Kensaku's desire for his mother, latent in the prologue and overt in his recollection of her in Chapter 3 of Part II, recreates the Iocastean riddle: Kensaku's mother is his "grandmother," and mother to her Oedipal husband, Kensaku. The Oedipal relationships of the characters in the prologue are self-referentially superpositional and "incestuous."
