Since the 2000s, Haruki Murakami’s world of literature has tended to be preoccupied by the word “From ”detachment to commitment“, which was uttered by the author in 1995. ‘Commitment’ is the change of Haruki’s ‘recognition’ that was acquired while seeking the relationship between individuals and society and there is a ‘commitment novel’ as a medium to link this to ‘reality’. Then what are the characteristics of Haruki’s ‘commitment novel’? This paper analyzed his short story “Landscape with Flatiron” and it was revealed that for Haruki, a ‘commitment novel’ intends to link the real world of the story to the real world of the author’. In other words, this refers to the ‘relationship of fiction and reality’. He also structurally separates the illustrations describing the process of healing the wounds by projecting people, who got hurt after the earthquake, onto the characters rather than describing the earthquake directly and using a bonfire that is a symbolic unit to show indirectly. But then he shows in a very indirect and symbolic way by connecting the illustrations to complete the entire story in content and placing elements symbolizing the earthquake at a long distance. But this method is focused on the detail rather than showing the contradiction of ‘From “detachment” to “commitment”’ and the whole and excludes other parts for the detail. For this reason, this leads to doubt about the true meaning of ‘commitment’. Nevertheless, 「Landscape with Flatiron」, which fictionalizes the problems of the real world by the medium of the Great Hanshin earthquake, contains the writer’s intention fully as a ‘commitment novel’ and taking into account that literature is a genre reflecting reality through ‘language’, it is thought that this is a clear literary expression.
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.