오에 겐자부로(大江健三郎)의 『만년양식집(晩年様式集)』론 ─자기언급을 통해 본 카타스트로피와 ‘만년의 스타일’─

Abstract

Ōe Kenzaburō's “In Late Style”(2013) is the 6th work which makes Chōkō Kogito a main character. It describes the daily life of the old writer who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. In "In Late Style," in addition to Kogito of central narrator, there are many narrators called 'I', and they criticize Kogito and his novels intensely. In this paper, I put a focus for the catastrophe that Kogito experienced in such a process. Through the analysis mainly on the catastrophe that Kogito is covered with, I examine that multiple first-person narrators and criticism to Kogito and self-reference are devices for what. As a result, I could confirm that these literary devices originated from self-criticism, which had adhered to the novel of the type described by first-person narrative ‘I’. The daily life of the old writer that the reality world and a border with the fiction collapsed by first-person narrative was located in the center of the self-criticism. The novel seems to have a self-contradiction of the writer who has adhered to the novel of the type described by the first-person narrative called ‘I’, but this is the strategy of the metafiction for building a ‘late style'. And “In Late Style” is depriving the authority of ’I’ as a nattator through various literary devices while sticking to the first-person narrative such as the I-novel. In this point, it may be said that this novel is the work which tried the deconstruction for the narration of the traditional I-novel.