Conflict Between Love and Fiction

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  • 愛と虚構の相克
  • Re-Evaluation of “Lemon Elegy”
  • 高村光太郎「レモン哀歌」再読

Abstract

Kotaro Takamura's first edition of Chieko–sho is highly evaluated as the love poem collection that, historically speaking, sold the most copies in Japan as a poem collection. This paper, however, regards Chieko–sho as a fictional work, not a poem collection, because it includes not only poems, but also six pieces of tanka and some memoirs. Stressing on the inclusion of essays on the memoirs, Chieko–sho should be regarded as a creative work on the life of love of fictional characters as ″Kotaro ″ and ″Chieko. ″ On top of that, almost all of the poems recorded there are a kind of compressed diaries, humorous idiotic expressions, emissions of mental impulses, and the instantaneous release of energy. Only ″Lemon elegy, ″ based on the simultaneous usage of the first person and the third person, shows the love in fiction by setting the past on the present in the work; it can be called fictional in terms of the composition and the time structure, and in this respect, it is worthy of high evaluation.

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  • CRID
    1391412326429876864
  • NII Article ID
    130007949398
  • DOI
    10.24628/yeiwa.18.0_1
  • ISSN
    24336467
    21870330
    1348575X
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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