무라카미 하루키(村上春樹) 문학과서브컬처의 관계성 연구－라이트노벨과의 비교를 통해－

Abstract

Since “Hear the wind song” had been published in Korea in 1989, Haruki Murakami’s works have struck Korean publication market every year. Especially when “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage” has announced in 2013, about 1,483 articles were written in that year. He introduced subcultural elements to his novels; hero in the novel is often introverted, sexually defensive male but in favor of women, and heroine in the novel is amazon who save the world from evil as well as the ingoing hero. In this aspect, Haruki is beyond the boundary between polite literature and popular literature and even embrace both in this age of literature crisis. Although people say it is the crisis of paper book but work pieces of Haruki Murakami are accepted more people than ever. The reason for this inconsistency is the period characteristics reflected in his works. It is obvious that the readers in this era, who are different from the readers in 1980, want different stories other than that age. Getting out of traditional only-test style, it includes illustrations and a warrior-like heroine destroys evils in the story. These aspects are very close to sub-culture. But the reason his works cannot be diminished as entertainment or sub-culture novel is because purpose of writing. While most sub-culture concentrate on stimulating their readers for stress solution, Haruki only uses those kinds of stipulations as tool. More important thing is that, modern readers increasingly want to “see” novels conveniently rather than “read”. Further, this cross-sexual age reflects men’s growing desire for strong women with Amazons. Like that, Haruki is establishing his world of works by utilizing sub-cultures very well. And his skillful control of tempo reflects the age characteristics without forcing them, which is the driving force that makes his works the world literature.