다자이 오사무(太宰治)의 「우라시마상(浦島さん)」론 - 다양한 언어표현을 중심으로 -

Abstract

「Urasimasang」 (1945), newly created by Dazai is composed based on a story which Urasima calling himself a ‘man of taste’ realizes mediocrity by himself. In that sense, it is considered that 『Cheongbindam』 (1941) and 『Chikuse』(1945) are also plotted based on a similar structure. However, different from those two works, a motif of ‘language’ in 「Urasimasang」 is described in various ways, so it includes difficulties in language delivery and expression, and understanding of humans through language. This research concentrates on features of various expressions of ‘language’ for analyzing works through differences between 「Urasimasang」 and its original text. For this, it is discussed focusing on the tone of a narrator, digging into conversation and language of tortoise, and language of Urasima, analyzes patterns of expressions revealed, and finally investigates view of language of Dazai. When it comes to the tone of the narrator, it was revealed that there were difficulties in language delivery and expression due to vague information delivery and nonsense overtalk style for modal expressions. Moreover, the ‘language’ of tortoise expresses critical vitriol and overtalk tone towards Urasima. The ‘language’ of Urasima shows the process that people’s thoughts on language were being reversed with multiple changes in the tone. This demonstrates thirst for communication with people on the ground with the change in recognition that they are the same as those people who cannot live without criticism each other.Finally, We can infer that we didn’t deny the overflowing falsehood in words of the people and accept linguistic double-sidedness with truth and untruth by the view of language of Dazai.