大江健三郎「父よ、あなたはどこへ行くのか?」論 - 父子関係を通してみる父の復元作業の意味-

Abstract

Ōe Kenzaburō’s “Father, Where will you go?” published in October, 1968 is the story that a main character ‘I’ restores his father. By consideration to 3 father-son relationships, It was found out that the text is showing the contents of emperor criticism. Ōe tried to project the critical eyes to an Imperial system onto a work and figure emperor's image from the multilateral angle as my father and son. The restoration work of ‘my father’ was Ōe’s try to inspect importance of existence of the emperor who has ruled inside himself, and it was necessary that an imagination is used as its means and it's made identical. It was pointed out that ‘gap’ is an appearance of uneasiness and incomprehensibility to the emperor that Ōe feeled, and also e estrangement of Oe's sense to an Imperial system and Japanese society’sense in those days.It is finded out that Ōe expects the continuation of discord to an Imperial system, As far as an Imperial system is continued, it will be made clear by the ending that ‘I’ begin to write a biography of ‘Father’ again.