「소설의 방법」과 ‘천황(제)’-오에 겐자부로『그리운 시절로 띄우는 편지』론-
“The Method of Novels” and “The Emperor of Japan” - A Study of Kenzaburo Oe’s Natsukashii toshi e no tegami -
Published in 1987, Natsukashii toshi e no tegami is a literary masterpiece by Kenzaburo Oe and was one of the works cited as a reason for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The narrator engages in self-criticism regarding the act of writing political essays or related novels while unprepared as a novelist. This descriptive method was also the author’s strategy to reconstruct the consistent thematic consciousness seen in his early works. In Oé’s novels, the ‘trickster’ has functioned as an important entity for expressing grotesque realism as a ‘method of the novel.’ Just as the ‘trickster’ is an entity that dismantles the fixed order of the community and opens up new possibilities, the attempt to blur the distinction between the novel and reality and destroy boundaries can be said to be symbolically revealed in the novel through the model of the ‘destroyer,’ whose substance is unclear. Oe is creating new peripheral characters and a worldview to counter the mythical nature of the Japanese imperial system.
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.