무라카미 하루키와 여행 － 「태엽감는 새 연대기(ねじまき鳥クロニクル)」의 몽골 －

Abstract

This study aims to look at Murakami Haruki’s recognition of Mongolia located in the Asia’s periphery by means of examining both the description of Mongolia represented in his novel named ‘Nezimaki Tori Chronicle’(hereinafter Nezimaki Tori) and the note taken by him after the trip to it. ‘Nezimaki Tori’ has been regarded as the first work in which contains Haruki’s historical consciousness. In Nezimaki Tori, however, Mongolia and the Mongolian soldiers are merely provided as the setting for the Japanese force to carry out the war. On the other hand, 『Henkyo, Kinkyo』, which is the note taken during this actual trip to Mongolia after his completion of Nezimaki Tori, gives us the different feeling of Mongolia from it. However, the perspective that a traveler Haruki sees the Asia’s periphery Mongolia raises the question of whether he is the writer who discovered a new aspect of the individual and the history. Nevertheless, he has been criticized by the fact that he maintained that the Nomonhan war was a typical Japanese style of war which was not prepared well regarding Mongolia and Mongolian soldiers that are used as a battlefield.