초연결 사회, ‘커미트먼트’의 조건 - 무라카미 하루키 『도시와 그 불확실한 벽』을 중심으로 -
Hyperconnected Society: The Conditions of “Commitment” - Focusing on Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls -
Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls(2023) was published just as the COVID-19 pandemic was coming to an end. This novel is a full-length work written as a third rewrite, based on the novella “The City and Its Uncertain Wall” (1980). Based on the historical context of the 1980s and the 2020s contained in the motif of “wall break-through,” it is necessary to examine the contemporary context. With the rise of data capitalism and the evolution of AI, we have entered an era where real-time access to information has become possible, transcending the constraints of time and space. Through the space of the “city,” the danger of losing autonomous judgment due to the confinement imposed by algorithms can be perceived. Haruki Murakami tackles the question of what a novelist can do in an era where the “wall= system” between people and the state is becoming increasingly rigid, and he questions the issue of “commitment” in this new age. In this novel, the issue of “system and individual” emerges as the backdrop to dealing with two worlds: reality and the fictional space called “the city.” In the conclusion of this novel, the protagonist ends up choosing a reality filled with pain, desire, and contradiction. In *The City and Its Uncertain Wall, the fundamental question of “Where is the real world?” suggests that the system of the “uncertain wall,” which alienates humans, can be transformed by the protagonist’s will and can change not by external forces, but by internal ones. It raises the question of how humans can exist in the digital world.
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.