Multiplying "Truths" : Shohei Ooka, Furyoki

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  • 増殖する「真実」 : 大岡昇平『俘虜記』論
  • ゾウショク スル シンジツ オオオカ ショウヘイ フリョキ ロン

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"Why did he stop shooting the American soldiers?" In Furyoki, the author Shohei Ooka gives no distinct answer to the vital question as if to implicitly show the impossibility of finding any single truth after the fact. Apart from the suspended question, there are similarly ambiguous moments in the story as in the phrases like "there is another kind of enemy" and "illusion of truth." Probably his tireless revisions of the text after its publication also indicate his skepticism about absolute truth, for in so doing, it seems, he tried to everlastingly defer the goal, that is, the completion of a final edition. Both in writing and in editing, as will be shown here, Ooka demonstrated the inevitable process of multiplication of truth into "truths."

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