『이즈의 소녀무희』고찰 -이미지를 중심으로-

Abstract

What makes this novel a masterpiece is not the outstanding subject, or excellent plot, or interesting story.It is the dim images supporting the romantic idea of this piece.From the title-forming image and the images here and there lead this novel.But, in this novel, it was found that there are many anti-images quite different from the images, so there is a stratum of images. First, I illuminated the outstanding images in the expression of 「me」 in the novel by classifying to visual and acoustic images, and they all accidentally jumped into 「me」, and the characteristics is that they are not related to cause-and-effect relationship.But, I found that they create romantic and emotional grief and make flowing lyric unique to the novel, and on the other hand, leave a long after-state exceeding the words, thus play a decisive role for making this novel a masterpiece. On the contrary, there are also anti-images not securing reality or having weak presence and finally break into pieces, so I found that these are acting as the area having adverse effect on the novel. In this process, contrastively to the form of the girl dancer, who maintains the same image, I found that there is a clear stratum in the identity of 「me」, and also found that the series of behaviors and confessions by 「me」 in the boat coming back from the parting cause the resistance making doubts even on the morality that if the love of 「me」 so far was a true love.It seems to be the part with the strong suspicion for the intervention of the writer rather than the behavior of the character in the novel. But, I found that the absolute presence of the outstanding images more than offset such flaw, so that this novel can be called 'Garden of Images'.Those images in this novel starting from the title are good transcending the time․space, and maintains the vividness without being desiccated.Therefore, this novel has no gustation period, and is loved by the readers for a long time.That owes to the outstanding presence of the images.