安部公房『方舟さくら丸』論 : 生きのこるための政治と、その衝動の根への遡行

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  • Abe Kobo’s “Ark Sakura Maru” : Politics for survival and a return to the roots of obsession

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This paper examines Japanese writer Abe Kobo and his work “Ark Sakura Maru,” written in 1984, and approaches his novels through his ambivalent position on nuclear war and Cold War. The story progresses inside a nuclear shelter as an Ark during Cold War. This work has frequently been discussed in relation to the Cold War and nuclear war as a counter to nuclear war. In addition, it has been discussed using the theory of Jean Baudrillard with reference to the term “age of simulation game” in the work. Earlier studies have considered Abe to be resisting the reality of nuclear war by affirming simulacra and simulations symbolized by the clockbug (eupcaccia). However this paper analyzes the work from a perspective different from nuclear war, simulation, or simulacra by examining the relationship between “Ark Sakura Maru” and a group of works that may have influenced its conception, a relationship that has been overlooked in previous studies, by animal behaviorist Konrad Lorenz and sociologist Elias Canetti. Abe has been influenced by Lorenz since “The Box Man” and by Canetti since the 1980s, and this work is no exception, incorporating the instincts of humans as a species from Lorenz and the problems of the state and the crowd from Canetti. This study examines how their influence is inseparable from the theme of this work, the sorting of life, which is described in the work as a politics. This reveals that Abe was attempting to write about the human instincts that would lead to nuclear war. In other words, Abe was thinking more fundamentally about politics.

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