오에 겐자부로의 「『새싹 뽑기, 어린 짐승 쏘기』재판」론 ‒‘재판’의 함축적 의미를 중심으로‒

Abstract

This paper is based on Oe Kenzaburo’s ‘“Memushiri Kouchi” Saiban’(1980). At first I will confirm the elements of defamiliarization through comparison with the early work ‘Memushiri Kouchi’(1958). Then, I will analyze what he is trying to say under the mechanism of ‘trial’. It would be possible to do the one aspect of Oe’s postwar recognition clearly by this. The narrator of “Memushiri Kouchi” Saiban’ has been changed from the juvenile reformatory side to the village side. In addition, the novel expands the time and space of the novel by shaping the ‘anti-younger brother’, who was the narrator of the early work, as a trick star that mediates between Japan and the United States, the Pacific War and the Vietnam War. The dialogue between ‘I’ and ‘anti-younger brother’ about the two affairs that took place before and after the Pacific War gives new meaning to the characteristics of the village and the villagers in the early work. The reminiscence on the ‘Democracy Trial’ conducted by the occupation forces can confirm the Oe’s perspective on the Tokyo Trial, that is, Oe’s perspective on the emperor system and emperor democracy of Japan. On the other hand, what “I” condemned for his brother’s novel was that in his early work, he did not properly describe the geographic specificity of the village and the history of the village. It is also Oe’s self-criticism for not revitalization of his imagination of the surrounding and the imagination of an anti-emperor system community that threatens the world centered on the emperor. Through the mechanism of ‘trial’, which is developed in two forms in the novel, I confirmed that Oe’s critical perspective on the reality of imperial democracy and the reality of Japan participating in the American war as the largest U.S. military base in East Asia.