@article{ART002140971},
author={LEE HYE-IN and Yun Hye Young},
title={The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-},
journal={Journal of Japanese Culture},
issn={1226-3605},
year={2016},
number={70},
pages={179-196},
doi={10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179}
TY - JOUR
AU - LEE HYE-IN
AU - Yun Hye Young
TI - The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-
JO - Journal of Japanese Culture
PY - 2016
VL - null
IS - 70
PB - The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
SP - 179
EP - 196
SN - 1226-3605
AB - The purpose of this paper is to examine the meaning of an absence through men's attitude and women's role who appear in the book『Men without Women』. Although the men experience their lives being ruined, they try to evade rather than actively to solve the problem. However, making them recognize it in their lives is none other than the women such as Misaki who is a driver of Kafuku, an unknown woman who drops by a bar, and a woman Dokai loves. The men come to know, by the women, that they are evasive and lay the cause of their failure to other's charge. In addition, they come to realize that the 'absence' in them is 'self-reflection', deeply thinking over and over their own existences. With the absence of women and self-reflection, the image of the men, who agonize on 'who I am', suggests the portrait of Japanese men who suffered from the Great East Japan earthquake in 2011. Haruki's concern that "we should blame our own selves who accept and show toleration to our distorted mind-set" and create "a story we can share" to make to a new ethical standard might be projected in this novel. The men and the women in the work, in fact, indicate the entire human race. Accordingly, it is the importance of self-reflection and the danger of avoiding issues that the author wants to strongly express through an easy topic, so called parting between men and women.
KW - 女のいない男たち(Men without Women);男(Man);女(Woman);いない(absence);回避(Evasion);自覚(Self-awareness);自己省察(Self-reflection)
DO - 10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179
ER -
LEE HYE-IN and Yun Hye Young. (2016). The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-. Journal of Japanese Culture, 70, 179-196.
LEE HYE-IN and Yun Hye Young. 2016, "The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-", Journal of Japanese Culture, no.70, pp.179-196. Available from: doi:10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179
LEE HYE-IN, Yun Hye Young "The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-" Journal of Japanese Culture 70 pp.179-196 (2016) : 179.
LEE HYE-IN, Yun Hye Young. The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-. 2016; 70 : 179-196. Available from: doi:10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179
LEE HYE-IN and Yun Hye Young. "The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-" Journal of Japanese Culture no.70(2016) : 179-196.doi: 10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179
LEE HYE-IN; Yun Hye Young. The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-. Journal of Japanese Culture, 70, 179-196. doi: 10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179
LEE HYE-IN; Yun Hye Young. The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-. Journal of Japanese Culture. 2016; 70 179-196. doi: 10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179
LEE HYE-IN, Yun Hye Young. The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-. 2016; 70 : 179-196. Available from: doi:10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179
LEE HYE-IN and Yun Hye Young. "The study of 『Men without Women』-Focusing on the meaning of the men, women, and ‘absence’-" Journal of Japanese Culture no.70(2016) : 179-196.doi: 10.21481/jbunka..70.201608.179
