오에 겐자부로의 『안녕, 나의 책이여!』론 - 문학적 상상력과 인간 회복에 대한 희구

Abstract

In this paper, Ōe Kenzaburō’s “Sayōnara, watashi no hon yo!(Farewell, My Book!)”(2005) is subject to the study. The preceding research dealt with “Sayōnara, watashi no hon yo!” on the common horizon of ‘Pseudo-Couples’, and there were a lot of things to consider the effect and the function or the meaning of ‘Pseudo-Couples’. But I focus on the ‘Sign’, which is also the title of the final chapter of the novel, considering the literary imagination of Ōe through the world of typography and the aspiring to human recovery. “Sayōnara, watashi no hon yo!” is the basis of the novel by the experience of the printed world of Ōe, including Elliot's poetry. Such a “Sayōnara, watashi no hon yo!”, the reason that it does not become ‘fictitious in the fictitious’ is to present the possibility of violence and terrorism which are omnipresent in various forms with the sense of crisis to the real world. After failing in the last big game, Kogito is absorbed in the task of reading and recording ‘signs’. It is because he expects the emergence of ‘New Men’ from among their generations to assume a child of about fourteen years old as a ‘signs’ record reader. The ‘New Men’ means a person who fights against those who oppress human intelligence and imagination in the age of nuclear, recovery people who bring peace and peace, and people who are broken by violence, eliminating hostility and confrontation. It was a ‘signs’ of violence and terrorism in various forms ubiquitous in the world that Ōe is drawing through his novel. And the figure of Kogito who spared the effort to record ‘signs’ for future generations to become the leading role of society after a quarter century, it can be read in the form of Ōe who aspires to manifestation of ‘New Men’ and human recovery.