무라카미 하루키(村上春樹) 소설의 시대성 : 『바람의 노래를 들어라』를 중심으로 = The Zeitgeist of Murakami Haruki’s Fiction : Focusing on Hear the Wind Sing

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Murakami Haruki, considered as a "postmodernist" in Japan and abroad, is one of the most well-known and influential Japanese writers. He belongs to a generation born after the defeat in World WarⅡ and experienced the high-speed economic growth of the 1960s and 1970s. His emergence into the literary world created a stir in Japan, and the introduction of his novels in Korea caused a similar response.
Murakami’s representative work is Norwegian Wood(1987), which sold four million copies in Japan soon after the publication and generated such terms as "the Murakami phenomenon" and "the Murakami boom." In Korea, Norwegian Wood was translated as Lost Generation and published in 1989 by Munhak Sasangsa. Modern Japanese novels became popular after the introduction of Norwegian Wood, and Korean writers were greatly influenced by Murakami, engendering "Harukiism."
In this paper, I attempt to locate the origins of Murakami’s literary world through a close examination of his maiden work, Hear the Wind Sing(1979). Hear the Wind Sing illustrates postmodernism as a practical and effective "master discourse" leading society in a certain direction, and the absence of the "master discourse" on the other. I analyzed these elements through the mechanism of the narrator and the significance of the late 1970s in Japan. Murakami’s insistence in portraying the narrator who is inhibited from expressing himself shows that he knows the 1970s era well. As a result, he is able to share the common frustrations experienced by the readers.
Murakami’s popularity and unique characteristics can be attributed to his creating a communication method that alleviates a sense of alienation felt by the powerless and the ordinary people. It is an allegory of the Japanese people who have high levels of education and reasonable wealth, and enjoy consumerism during the period of high-speed economic growth. In this sense, Murakami changed the direction of modern literature by delineating a sense of void and questioning the existence of a generation born after the defeat in World War II and during the economic growth as a backdrop in his work.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 영문초록
• Ⅰ. 들어가면서
• Ⅱ. 문학적 풍경의 시대적 의미에 대하여
• Ⅲ. 장치로서의 ‘표현자’
• Ⅳ. 존재 찾기 게임
• Ⅴ. 나오면서
• 참고 문헌