This paper analyzes the text of Haruki Murakami announced in 2013, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His years of Pilgrimage” from a critical point of view studying his awareness of history. He has produced several works of fictions with historic material since 1990. In this text, a rape case of a woman named “Shiro” is an allegory of the historic tragedy “the Japanese army’s comfort woman”. The protagonist “Tsukuru” had been excluded from his friend’s circle without knowing why makes a pilgrimage to find a truth. After exonerated by every friend of him, he is redeemed. This structure of story is not uncommon in Marakami’s other texts. However, this text never reveals the truth whether Tsukuru did commit sexual assault against Shiro or not. Shiro is excluded and eliminated from the whole story and only the outsiders remain declaring she was lying. It is worth noting that, without a testimony of the victim of the crime, only distorted truth gains victory.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.