사기사와 메구무(鷺澤崩)의 文學 世界

On the Literature of Sagisawa Megumu

The literature of Sagisawa(鷺澤崩) has the obvious characteristics as literature of a new generation of Korean Japanese. While the literature written by Korean Japanese showed resistance against the Japanese society and never ending question about national identity, Sagisawa intends to create literature of youngsters' sentiment and language. His novels resort to the peripheral area instead of the central area of metropolis as their stage and speak for the distressed young people; sometimes harshly, sometimes calmly. They include the original meaning of contemporary people; interior existence covered by shining surface, recurrence consciousness of those who left with trauma. Moreover, his sensuous writing style approaches toward the primary mental space based on the realistic sense, overcoming the conventional idealogical world. Sagisawa literature pursues that kinds of mental space and in the process, express the pursuit with unaffected, sensitive language of young man. We can understand his journey to this primary existence in novels like Riverside, Those Who Cannot Return, Decaying Village, Story about Seagul House and also his grasp of transfiguration and dismantlement of Korean Japanese, in True Summer, Do you Love This Country?, A Golden Bell Is A Flower.