『蓬莱曲』の構想 : モチーフ形成過程における四つの柱とテーマの多元性(<小特集>『蓬莱曲』を読む)

抄録

Though I admit Horai-kyoku is a very difficult work to understand, I don't agree with those critics who denounce it as a work of inconsistency. The author presents several motives such as "culture criticism", "love affair", "drifting" and " the other worlds", which he amalgamates altogether to form one big work. I made an attempt to pursue the pluralistic spaces of this work based on the inherent logic which is the particular characeristics of Tokoku and to explain the historical meaning of its theme, by going into details and proving the mode- rnism of the work.