다자이 오사무(太宰治)의『갈매기(鷗)』론-벙어리 <나>와 씩씩한 ‘아내’를 통해 보는 중일전쟁 중의 양면성-

Abstract

DAZAI Osamu's　"Kamome[Sea gull]" which it finished writing in November, 1939 has beenexpressing well　about　the time situation under Second Sino-Japanese War started in 1937. Thegovernment mobilized all to war, forced the life which wanted and added the restriction in many ofeveryday life to people. ‘I’ which can not be a military man sends Comfort Bag that a woman behind thelines sends, it feels a strong inferiority complex and shame. And, ‘I’ has the sadness and loneliness whichare commented to be a ‘lunatic’ in the world by the thing of five years ago. On the other hand, to ‘I’which worries about the shortage of goods, when it was only making a great uproar in the newspaper, itwas rejected, and the section of people who lead the life which became abundant by prosperity bySecond Sino-Japanese War was reflected through the figure of the ‘wife’ ‘I’ has the strong will whichpursues true art. And he is conscious of the existence which employs efficiently a lunatic, i.e., ‘the self which is notpersons’, being ‘art’ insertion of Biblical language　"Kamome" It is a work which tried to express thepower of drawing not the work in which the pressure from the time of war and conflict as DAZAI'swriter were drawn but the figure of people who do somehow or other and try to make a living though itwanders about, and ‘me’ who sympathize with it and try to go toward raw both, and making a living thepainful time bravely. The figure which does not yield during a steep Second Sino-Japanese War, buttries to make a living, and the figure of the quiet resistance to a time appear in the figure of DAZAIdescribing 'I' which makes a living bravely as a writer.