Son, Father, and the Two Treasons : Memory, Desire, and Communion in Haruo Sato's "Kinuta"

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  • 佐藤春夫における短編「砧」の問題 : 熊野および春夫父子の「大塩事件」と「大逆事件」とをつなぐ心性
  • サトウ ハルオ ニ オケル タンペン キヌタ ノ モンダイ クマノ オヨビ ハルオ フシ ノ オオシオ ジケン ト タイギャク ジケン ト オ ツナグ シンセイ

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In his short story "Kinuta," Haruo Sato inserted an episode of a revolutionary obviously modeled after Osio-Heihachiro who revolted against the government in the late Edo Period. The reason he did so was not only that his family was actually involved in the Osio Revolt but also that at that time there happened an incident reminiscent of the revolt - the High Treason by Shusui Kotoku and other anarchists. Although the treason is never mentioned in the story, the two historical events overlap in the course of narrating the episode. It is as if the author's dangerous desire to write about the treason emerged in a transferred and transformed fashion, almost unconsciously fused with the memory of the revolt inherited from his ancestors, especially his father Toyotaro.

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