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カズオ･イシグロの文学：マジック･リアリズムと沈黙の語り
Get PDFKazuo Ishiguro’s recent turn towards fantasy in his latest novel The Buried Giant has placed all of his previous works in a revealing perspective. In relation to this, the following five propositions are outlined and established.1) Ishiguro has been strongly influenced by 1960s ‘speculative fiction.’One of the salient features Ishiguro shares with the 1960s trend in science fiction (or speculative fiction as defined by Judith Merrill) is magic realism.2) All of Ishiguro’s novels are quest romances.The Buried Giant is an unmistakable quest romance. All the novels are revealed to be including variations on the same structure.3) All of Ishiguro’s novels are forms of historical fiction.Ishiguro’s novels have been invariably concerned with the history of the interminable, ‘long twentieth-century’, a century of wars and concentration camps.4) Ishiguro’s narratives are filled with silences as in the modern Japanese novel.Readers of Ishiguro are invited to make silences speak, and to read between and behind the lines. His novels have significant affinities with those of Soseki Natsume, and Yasunari Kawabata.5) Ishiguro’s oeuvre so far can be seen as Freudian/Derridean ‘works of mourning’Ishiguro is engaged in Freudian ‘work of mourning’ as Jacques Derrida had done in his last years. What he is mourning for are humdrum, ordinary people. His silent narratives are so many requiems for the nameless dead who have perished in wars and in concentration camps
従順なエルフと抵抗するゴブリン：「ハリー･ポッター」シリーズの魔法種族における価値の逆転
Get PDFElves and goblins in J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” books seem to be rather different from their traditional images we see in British folktales. Rowling’s elves are pathetic, hardly able to act for their own sake, delighted only when they are treated well by witches and wizards. On the other hand, goblins are clever and assertive, and always stick to their goals. In Harry’s last battle with Voldemort told in the seventh book, a goblin, Griphook, plays a crucial part. It seems that in Rowling’s works goblins are given more positive roles than elves, which is not the case in most traditional folktales. However, learning to be kind to house-elves is also very important for Harry, because house-elves work best for those who are kind to them, and acquiring their help means a lot in the battles Harry fights. In the seventh book, Harry digs a grave for Dobby, the house-elf who has died to save him. Harry does this just for Dobby’s memory, not to get help from house-elves. This selfless service of Harry’s moves Griphook, usually a stubborn and defiant goblin, and he agrees to join forces with Harry in his task to defeat Voldemort. Elves and Goblins described in Rowling’s works show that just being kind can change the world
