To Those Who Can't Speak : A Critical Review of Jun Eto's and Yukio Mishima's Reviews on "Shiiku"

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  • 言葉を奪われた動物 : 大江健三郎「飼育」をめぐる江藤・三島の批評の問題点
  • コトバ オ ウバワレタ ドウブツ オオエ ケンザブロウ シイク オ メグル エトウ ミシマ ノ ヒヒョウ ノ モンダイテン

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In his review on Kenzaburo Oe's short story "Shiiku," Jun Eto saw something pre-modern in the figure of the black soldier who is killed like an animal and justified the repression of it from his modernist point of view. In his anti-modernist critique on the same story, Yukio Mishima tried to find the continuity of existence in the moment of the soldier's death. Although both the reviewers are convincing in their own ways, they fail to see an important issue raised in the story; our possible or impossible relation to those who are epistemologically absent without having any common language. Why could Eto and Mishima be so indifferent to it? To answer the question, here I will critically review the critical discourses they made in the 1960s.

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