미야자와 겐지(宮澤賢治)의 문학작품 속 심상지리‒『구스코 부도리의 전기』를 중심으로‒

Abstract

In this paper, we examine ‘Biography of Gusuko Budori’ written by Kenji Miyazawa in his later years from the perspective of imagined geography. First, we look at how ‘Ihatov’, which appears in Kenji’s many works, is described in ‘Biography of Gusuko Budori’. Next, we examine his imagery description by searching for the relation between ‘forest’, ‘village’, and ‘city’, which appear as major places in the work, and their corresponding real space. In ‘Biography of Gusuko Budori’, Ihatov, a space created by Kenji as a utopia, modeling his hometown of Iwate Prefecture, is set as a place with a difficult natural environment where natural disasters frequently occur, and thus has something in common with real Iwate Prefecture suffering from cold damage. In addition, based on his own experience, Kenji describes the separation from his family through the harsh natural environment ‘forest’, Iwate Prefecture’s agricultural area and the harsh life of farmers due to the cold damage through ‘village’, and the importance of modern science and technology through a literary space called ‘city’. In short, ‘Biography of Gusuko Budori’ is a work in which Kenji, who dedicated his life as an agricultural technology leader for farmers suffering from natural disasters, reflects his wishes and values by presenting real problems and solutions through the form of a fairy tale.