三島由紀夫：낭만주의자의 순애(純愛) -『파도소리(潮騒)』·『봄눈(春の雪)』을 중심으로-

Abstract

The Sound of Waves is a novel that Mishima wrote precisely ‘as ifhe had drew his own ideal’, along with a boom of pure love during the postwar era in Showa 30s.  This novel, which is referred to as one of his representative pure love novels, appears in a typical form of pure love novel in which physical virginity and pure love seeking nointerests became a pair as a concept of virginity was introduced after war.  However, Mishima evaluated his novels ashaving internal contradictions and indicated that The Sound of Waves is not a love story in the true sense of theword. Afterwards, Mishima said that ‘taboo’ disturbing love is required to constitute a lovestory and set ‘imperial family’s permission’ as the biggest taboo among othersthat he could imagine and finally came to write a love story titled Spring Snow. Fora romantic relationship, when there is taboo that cannot close the distancebetween two lovers, the emotion of genuine love seeking no interests may beleft.  Mishima’s ‘pure love’ requiredabsolute taboo in order to become genuine love which overcomes everything. Meanwhile,this principle for pure love can be deemed parallel to the doctrine of Ironiethat one longs for absolute being and finally becomes ruined.  The principle leads to ‘ruin’ as the ‘pure’heart longing for ‘absolute being’ sought by Romanticists such as Yashda Yojuro is not compromised. Mishima demonstrated that thispure love and the doctrine of ironie became a pair by writing the pure love themed first part of his posthumous work, The Sea of Fertility and the ironie themed second part thereof.