고바야시 히데오의 전쟁 인식

Abstract

In this study, the view of war depicted in the sentences of Kobayashi Hideo a literary critic written in the war period before and after 1940 were examined. Immediately after the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, Kobayashi admitted as a grim reality the war breaking out in his eyes through social editorial writing like　「About War(戦争について)」, and expressed his resolution that he was fighting as one of the ‘nationals(国民)’. Such a view is because he forgot the point that war which mobilizes the all-out potential of the nation is an act of violence on other nation, and rather recognized it only as one of the nationals instead of in political perspective. As a result, he saw only the everyday life of the solders in the bustle of war rather than the violence of war even though he encountered the war in practice while serving as war correspondent in the Chinese front line. In other words, Kobayashi could not maintain an attitude to see the war in some distance by keeping a way of thinking in the same perspective as in usual period. Kobayashi after all could not maintain an attitude to recognize the violent act of war properly under the pretext “Japanese people(日本国民)” while assuming critical attitude toward the military authorities the executors of war and politicians.