The Narrative Technique of Genki no Sakadachi by Miki Takashi : The Media called "I"(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 71-79
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1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 71-79
Miki Takashi's Genki no Sakadachi was published as a children's book in 1986 by Chikuma Shobo. A collection of loosely-related short stories with Shigeru, a sixth-grader in 1947, as hero, it can be regarded as one of the novelist's autobiographical writings. The eight collected stories are narrated by the "I." This "I" is at once the boy Shigeru at the time of 1947 and the present author. I have attempted to contemplate the significance of Genki no Sakadachi both as a children's book and as part of Miki Takashi's overall work.
