Osamu Dazai's "Hino-tori" : The Death of a Terrorist and the Regeneration of a Woman

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  • 太宰治「火の鳥」論 : 黒色テロリストの死と再生
  • ダザイ オサム ヒノトリ ロン コクショク テロリスト ノ シ ト サイセイ

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Osamu Dazai's "Hino-tori" reflects the political scene from the 1920s to the 1930s. The figure of a terrorist named Otohiko Suzuki, for example, refers to the terrorism by anarchistic communists in 1935 and the case of the Guillotine Society in the late Taisho Period. Suzuki's defeat and his lover Sachiyo's unsuccessful suicide make a striking contrast with the hedonistic atmosphere of the age. While the terrorist is symbolically killed by old values, Sachiyo's regeneration represents the expectation of a new order.

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