小林勝の『断層地帯』のテキストの変化- 1958年版と1966年版の比較による1952年の描写変化 -

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the texts of Dansou Chitai, written by Masaru Kobayashi, through comparison between the 1958 edition and the 1966 edition. Dansou Chitai depicts the post-war Japan in the first half of the 1950s. This literary work has not been positively evaluated, and it has thus received little attention in previous studies. This novel, however, is distinctive in that in all of Masaru Kobayashi’s works, only this novel was revised; the first edition was published in 1958, followed by the second edition in 1966. Comparing these two editions, we reveal that a vast amount of pages (400 pages) in the 1958 edition was removed in the 1966 edition. In analyzing this quantitative change, we distinguish between the character- related aspect of the novel and the incident-related aspect, and observe discrepancies between the two editions in terms of the descriptions of the era during which the characters lived and the social structure of the era. These discrepancies shed light on various aspects of the year 1952, a temporal pivot of the novel, and also explicated the theme of the novel intended by the author.