미야자와 겐지 「늑대 숲과 소쿠리 숲, 도적 숲」– 은유로서의　서사　구조 –

Abstract

「Wolf Forest and Sokuri Forest and Thief Forest」 has three levels: story world outside, story world inside, and meta-story world, if the “introduction” of “restaurants with many orders” is regarded as story world outside. On the story world inside , the narrator “I” was told the history of names of 4 forests by the big rock. In the meta-story world, as four persons of the farmer family settle in the plain surrounded by four forests, a conflict with nature leads to reconciliation by inquiries, confessions and arbitration. Rice cake made of millet is a symbol of reconciliation. But at the end, there is a speech that in the season of poverty, the rice cake became so much smaller, indicating that such rapport is gradually disappearing. Story telling is abstract but it can tell where the narrator is. The narrator “I” who listens to the events in the meta-story world that the rock told is <Genji>, a narrator outside the story world, and although he is inside and outside the story world, he is not in the meta-story world. In other words, the meta-story world is an event of an era that the narrator “I” inside and outside the story world can talk about but cannot experience. The narrators inside and outside the story world are not allowed to invade the meta-story world. In other words, the meta-story world is an event of an era that the narrator “I” inside and outside the story world can talk about but cannot experience. The narrators inside and outside the story world are not allowed to invade the meta-story world. This discontinuity of the narrator’s space functions as a metaphor for the discontinuity of time.