Immortality and Wandering : Sakutaro Hagiwara's "Sinanai-tako"

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  • 不死/漂泊 : 萩原朔太郎「死なない蛸」
  • フシ ヒョウハク ハギワラサクタロウ シナナイ タコ

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Sakutaro Hagiwara's poem "Sinanai-tako," published in the April issue of Shin-seinen in 1927 and later reprinted in his collection of poems Shukumei (1939), suggests a unique view of immortality. The immortal octopus in the poem implies the ultimate impossibility of death in wartime when death occurs not individually but collectively. It also implies a trace of something uncanny in literature that cannot be represented and figuratively dead. Here reading several other literary texts of the same age, I will consider the impossibility of death which is both physical and literary.

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