이시구로의 『부유하는 세상의 화가』: 참회와 용서의 문제
Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World: Problems of Repentance and Forgiveness
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This paper aims to analyze An Artist of the Floating World from the perspective of repentance and forgiveness. Proper repentance should be comprised of the truthful and well-contextualized narrative of the past. Ono’s narrative of his past as an artist supporting Japanese militarism reveals the narrator’s strong intention to justify his wrong doings. This paper will argue that his repentance cannot be a proper one because of the narrator’s selfish purpose to justify his past. Also, the novel’s intentional exclusion of historical context can make the readers with the background of victimization by Japanese militarism feel offended.
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This paper aims to analyze An Artist of the Floating World from the perspective of repentance and forgiveness. Proper repentance should be comprised of the truthful and well-contextualized narrative of the past. Ono’s narrative of his past as an artist supporting Japanese militarism reveals the narrator’s strong intention to justify his wrong doings. This paper will argue that his repentance cannot be a proper one because of the narrator’s selfish purpose to justify his past. Also, the novel’s intentional exclusion of historical context can make the readers with the background of victimization by Japanese militarism feel offended.
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- Griswold, L. Charles, "Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration" (2007), Cambridge UP
- Ishiguro, Kazuo, "An Artist of the Floating World" (1989), Vintage
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- Shibata, Motoyuki, "Strange Reads: Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Plae View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World in Japan", pp.20~31 (2010), Continuum
- Wright, Timothy, "No Homelike Place: The Lesson of History in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World", Contemporary Literature, 55(1), pp.55~88 (2014)