- 著者
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西村 安弘
- 出版者
- 東京工芸大学芸術学部
- 雑誌
- 東京工芸大学芸術学部紀要 = Bulletin of Faculty of Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University (ISSN:13493450)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.27, pp.1-11, 2021-03-31
A short story“ Theme of the Traitor and the Hero” by Jorge Luis Borges has an antinomic plot in which an activist forIreland’s independence is both a traitor and a hero at the same time. Two films based on this story, The Man Who Liesby Alain Robbe-Grillet and The Spider’s Stratagem by Bernardo Bertolucci, introducing a theme of the doubles, switchthe background of Ireland’s independence to anti-Fascist resistance. Robbe-Grillet’s leading character calls himself BorisVarissa or Jan Robin and one shoots down the other at the end. Through the absurd lives of the doubles, it exposes thevacancy of narration. In Bertolucci’s film, a father and a son who have the same name Athos Magnani are played by Giulio Brogi alone. Theson tires to reveal the truth of his father’s assassination in Tara and his investigation causes the symbolic killing of hisfather. The father unified with the local town makes his son a prisoner. Tara is also the homeland where Scarlett O’Hara repeatedly comes back in The Gone with the Wind. Though Scarlett andMelanie Hamilton are seemed to be the contrast characters, the author Margaret Mitchell divided the original heroine intothese twin characters. For Irish quarter and communist Bertolucci, Tara is the fatherland both where he should abandonand where he dreams to return.