著者

梁 喜辰

出版者

国文学研究資料館

雑誌

国際日本文学研究集会会議録 = PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE (ISSN:03877280)

巻号頁・発行日

no.36, pp.67-88, 2013-03-31

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The works of Kobayashi Takiji returned to the limelight when the “Kanikōsen” boom occurred in Japan in 2008. There is a strong relation between this boom and the spread of new liberalism in Japan. The novel “Kanikōsen” became a topic of conversation among the young who were distressed by the ‘kakusa shakai (disparity society)’ and it would have been exacerbated by the boom.The reason why Japanese people have started reading Takiji’s novels again might lie in the ‘ruijisei (resemblance)’ between today and the period when Takiji lived. People are now facing a ‘once in a century’ financial crisis following Subprime Shock and Lehman Shock. This situation shook not only Japan but also the world economy. It goes without saying that the new liberalism relates to this state of things.Takiji was a communist and there are many novels which depicted class conflict in his novels written after he made his debut to the literary world in earnest. His debut novel “ 一九二八年三月十五日 (15th March 1928)”took up the incident‘San ichi go jiken (The 15th March incident)’ in 1928 as its subject and it portrayed the arrest of the Japanese communists in Hokkaido. Kurahara Korehito valued the novel as ‘one of the important suggestions for the future development of proletarian literature’ although it has ‘a defect as art’. Kurahara might have valued the novel from the point of the movement of proletarian literature’s realism which he advocated. It seems that he did not dare to mention the literary side of it.In this presentation, I am going to examine this‘defect as art’of“ 一九二八年三月十五日”and make clear how the proletarian novelist Takiji understood the reality of the day as well as how he depicted it by using literary expression.