일본의 전후기억과 송환의 망각 - 고바야시 마사루 「어느 조선인 이야기」 시론 -

Abstract

Mr. Masaru Kobayashi’s first novel “A story of a certain Korean” (1952. 9) is a work which has almost never been mentioned in the Japanese postwar literary history as much as the writer has. This novel in which the Korean who was repatriated appears provides a concrete but important clue when we attempt to reexamine the postwar memorization style of Japan stylized from a certain time For example, the story of a Korean person “remembers ‘1952’ only in the form of ‘the end of the occupation regime’, the real image of the Korean person’s forcible repatriation hidden behind the withdrawal. In addition, the novel requests the re-inspection of postwar memory from the existence of the Omura camp, etc. Furthermore, the novel tells the involvement of the Korean government and the US government in the compulsory repatriation to the posterity; we thus need to revisit issues in postwar East Asia by considering not only the aspect of “frepatriation” but also the aspect of “deportation.” Mr. Masaru Kobayashi’s “The story of a certain Korean” renews Japan’s postwar memory, which we examine based on the analysis of the writer’s career and work as well as various materials in the present paper.