개인・공동체・근대 -『타오르는 푸른 나무』3부작을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study explored 『Moeagaru-midorinoki』trilogy of Kenzaburo Oe and identified the linking point and differentiating point of the ‘individual’ and ‘community’ formations to the other novels of Kenzaburo Oe. The novelty of such formations was also examined in addition. 『Moeagaru-midorinoki』trilogy were published in 1990s when there were many turbulences and changes in and out of Japan. In the 1990s, the world finished the Cold War and globalization was accelerating. Oe reflected on this time later and said that he was quite disturbed and he felt he was pushed to the dead-end as a novelist. He said he had turbulent days after the socialism had fallen down. The works of Oe at that time directly and indirectly reflect the aspects of the time and the internal world of Oe. The characters, arrangement of community and the formations reflect the influences of the time. In modern age, the meaning of distance and space became thin by the facilities of civilization. The trans-national individuals and individuals on the boundary increased. With such time background, Oe did not stay in the village community which had been the space of folklore. He searched for more fluid and ‘open’ community and more subjective life as an individual. The value of village community as a “base of operation” had been emphasized in all of his works. Such value is preciously succeeded in 『Moeagaru-midorinoki』trilogy, while they secure the relativizing viewpoint of it.