패전기 손바닥 소설과 전후 가와바타 문학

Abstract

Tenohirano-shosetu works by Kawabata Yasunari in the war-lost age are nearly 12 which can categorized and examined into 4 groups: the stories that apparently revealed the states of the war-lost age, the ones that had the subject matters related to family or relatives, the ones in which death, non-ordinaries, or monstrous states showed, and the ones with the matter of dream, and the ones that sorrow of aging old were focused on. In this article, the works except the group with the matter of the war-lost states are examined. The group with the matter of family or relatives showed the properties of Kawabata in which the general subjects through the early to the last period of Kawabata literature were revealed. The group with the matter of death and non-ordinary contained the art as the theme of his later works, and the group of monstrous states had the admitting and embracing attitude. The group with the matter of dream were related much to his representative later novels, as they kept the flow from his early to later. The novels with the matter of ugliness of aging old were often in his later period and so remarkable that made a flow in the tenohirano-shosetu in the war-lost age. Particularly, as in the works of aging ugliness and dream, the tenohirano-shosetu in the war-lost age were strongly related to A sound of Mountain in terms of their matter subjects and the creating methods, and also the kind of precursor works of it.