하라 다미키(原民喜) ｢여름꽃｣ 시론

A Study on Tamiki Hara’s Natsu no Hana

原民喜は、日露&#25126;&#20105;に勝利した後、本格的に日本が帝&#22269;主義の道を&#27497;き始める時に生まれた。&#65378;民喜&#65379;という自分の名前と、原家が軍事物資の納品で富を築いたことに&#23550;する負い目を感じていた。そのせいかもしれないが、原は、敗&#25126;後、いち早く被爆の&#24808;&#29366;を描いた&#65378;夏の花&#65379;を書き上げ、&#30330;表しようとした。原爆文&#23398;は世界で唯一の被爆&#22269;である日本にしか存在しない特殊な文&#23398;ジャンルである。原民喜をはじめ、原爆文&#23398;者たちは自己&#20307;&#39443;の作品化の過程の中で、再び、過去の辛い記憶を思い出さなければならないという<二重の被爆の苦痛>に耐えなければならなかった。それだけでなく、いつ、自分に訪れるかもしれない死の恐怖と自分だけ生き&#27531;ったという罪&#24746;感に苛まれていた。&#65378;夏の花&#65379;の主人公は、原爆の爆&#30330;の時、奇跡的に生き&#27531;り、死者と被爆者たちの想像を絶する悲&#24808;な姿と苦痛、一瞬にして&#22730;滅した&#24195;島の町を書き&#27531;す決心をする。その過程で、人間の&#65378;愚劣&#65379;に&#23550;する怒りを感じ、&#65378;新地獄&#65379;の&#24808;&#29366;を一篇の詩にまとめる。被爆というモチ&#12540;フの文&#23398;的凝縮と表出のため、詩というジャンルとカタカナという表現媒&#20307;が必要であった。

Tamiki Hara was born when the imperialism of Japan substantially started after the country’s victory of the Russo Japanese War. Hara had the sense of inferiority about his own name Tamiki as well as the fact that the Hara family became rich due to their business concerning military materials. Perhaps because of this, Hara wrote up Natsu no Hana, a literary work depicting the tragedy resulting from the explosion of atomic bombs, immediately after Japan was defeated. The literature of atomic bombs constitutes a unique literary genre which exists only in Japan, a sole country where atomic bombs were actually dropped. In the process of creating literary works, Tamiki Hara and other writers of the atomic bomb literature had to endure the “double agony of radiation exposure,” which includes not only the actual exposure to radiation but also the process whereby they need to remember the tragic history. Furthermore, they were concerned with the fear of death and with the sense of guilty arising from the fact that they alone survived the war. The main character of Natsu no Hana miraculously survived the war despite the explosion of an atomic bomb, and decided to write about the unimaginable tragedy and agony of those who died or was seriously injured by atomic bombs and the town of Hiroshima which was instantly devastated entirely. In this writing process, Hara got angry with people’s “stupidity” and wrote about the terrible situation of “Shin Jigoku” (new hell) in a single poem. In order to achieve the literary condensation of radiation exposure and to express it, Tamiki Hararesorted to the genre of poetry and the katakana notation.