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A study on Ozaki’s Platonic Love —About the love in the creative motive—

  • 日本硏究
  • 2019, (50), pp.167-182
  • DOI : 10.20404/jscau.2019.02.50.167
  • Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : December 27, 2018
  • Accepted : January 31, 2019
  • Published : February 20, 2019

Han, Kwang-Soo 1

1청주대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper is a review of love which was the creative motive of Ozaki Koyo. Koyo said in his ‘Konzikiyasya’, “For the creative motive of Konzikiyasya the power of money is simply instantaneous and no matter how powerful it may be, but it cannot be preserved permanently. On the contrary, I think love is forever dominating life. In other words, it is love that brings life very closely together. So I started writing because I wanted to write it.” I pay attention to his expression that love is not eternity, but love controls life invariably forever. I think he had a different idea than the fantasy of love, which insisted on eternal and immutable love in the midst of the age of Western worship by other authors. I wrote this paper after making such a hypothesis. As a result analyzing ‘tazyotakon’ and ‘Konzikiasya’ which are said to have drawn platonic love shows that neither side is talking about the eternity and immutability of love. I think that the reason is reflected in his willingness to stick to his position as a realist writer, and conclude that he did not talk about the ideal of love in his work but tried to paint the reality of Japanese as it is.

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