プロレタリア文学の「根」 : 葉山嘉樹が提起したもの(<特集>プロレタリア文学)

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Hayama wrote Umi ni Ikurubeki Hitobito while in prison, where the horrors of daily life often drove him to extreme despair. He was to end up writing a conversion statement declaring his intent to withdraw from aii political activity. By bringing together the prisoners, robbed of all humanity, and the proletariat, Hayama was able to discIose the essence of the proletariat as that of a group deprived of the right to live as human beings. Hayama was also led to think of the plight of his family while he was imprisoned and was finally driven to the conversion statement which resulted in his release. He sought to express the humanity not only of those workers at the forefront of the class struggle, but also of those workers lacking in consciousness, buried in their work, and even of ne'er-do-well types, He stressed that the sufferings imposed by daily life constituted the origins of the proletarian movement and proletarian literature.