- 著者
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佐野 正人
- 出版者
- 日本比較文学会
- 雑誌
- 比較文学 (ISSN:04408039)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.36, pp.42-53, 1994-03-31 (Released:2017-06-17)
In East Asia, the years between the late 1920’s and the early 30’s were, in the literary sense, a rare period during which a mutual synchronicity and living literary interchange among writers took place. The origin of this synchronicity was, on one hand, the growth of modern cities and their urban cultures in the 20’s, and on the other hand, the contemporary sympathy with the Chinese national revolution centering on the 5・30 incident in 1925. Around 1930 in Tokyo, Yokomitsu Riichi wrote the novel “Shanghai”,while Mao Tun wrote “The Twilight” in Shanghai. Yokomitsu’s “Shanghai”,staged at Shanghai’s International Settlement, conceived a new relationship of human beings and affairs, which was separated from the frame of the modern state. In distinction to this, Mao Tun’s “The Twilight”,staged also at Shanghai, described the circumstances wherein a modern state would fail owing to foreign capitals and the civil war in China. In other words, the two writers drew opposing images of the same object, Shanghai. At Keijo (Seoul) in the 1930’s, modernist writers, beginning with Yi Sang, took an active part in the Korean literary scene. Yi Sang’s modernist poems internalized Japanese modernist literature, yet formalized it and surpassed it. His poems and life show us an initial example of post-colonialism.