中文摘要 |
目前有關在台內地人作家川合三良的作家作品研究尚不多見。三良曾以〈轉學〉〈某一時期〉〈出生〉〈婚約〉等作與周金波(〈志願兵〉)同獲首屆「文藝台灣賞」,其中〈婚約〉最獲好評。戰後葉石濤在引介〈婚約〉時,曾以其著眼於決戰下台灣的日本男女青年飽受苦難的樣貌書寫,加以全文「無一句話歌頌日本侵略戰爭」,主張其略帶反戰思想。然而,「反戰」與「獲獎」在太平洋戰爭已爆發的時代背景下,何以能同時並存?本文由此問題意識出發,主要聚焦於〈婚約〉,從戰時後方日常及前線日常與非日常之書寫、反戦・厭戦:擴張與縮小的抗拮、赤化.轉向與戰場經驗:兼論三良渡台前的經歷等視角,思考〈婚約〉的時代意涵。過程中並參照其他獲獎系列作,以及戰後三良的日本民主主義文學同盟運動、社會運動的參與動向及文學活動。結果顯示,作者乃隱約透過後方的幸福日常與身處前線者的身心受難書寫,試圖將戰爭殺傷力前景化。而投射作者自身經驗的赤化.轉向書寫,則導致文本小心翼翼包覆的厭戰思想,最終仍朝向配合時局的方向收斂,唯其亦極為克制。本文主張正是這種對反戰・厭戰欲言又止、對迎合時局僅透過個我經驗的方式而非著墨於對戰爭本身的評論的書寫姿態,構成了〈婚約〉的基調。 There has been relatively little research published on the works of the Taiwan-based Japanese author Kawai Saburou. Along with Zhou Jin-bo, author of Volunteer Soldier, Kawai was awarded the inaugural Bungei Taiwansho (Taiwan Literary Arts Award) for works such as School Transfer, A Certain Time, and Engagement. Of the three, Engagement was the most highly praised. After the war, Yeh Shih-tao noted that Engagement focuses on the suffering of young Japanese men and women, writing that it contains “not a single word praising the Japanese war of aggression” and therefore takes a somewhat anti-war position. That said, how can “anti-war” and “award-winning” both coexist in a novel written against the backdrop of the Pacific War? This paper proceeds from this problematic, focusing on key tensions in Engagement: the contrast in the text between daily life and extraordinary events, the front lines and the rear; the antagonism between the expansive expression of war weariness and anti-war sentiments on the one hand and the constrictive social context on the other; and the relationship between Kawai’s communist turn and his ordeals on the battlefield. I also consider Kawai’s experiences and thinking before coming to Taiwan and examine the historical implications of Engagement. Reference is made to other award-winning works, Kawai’s postwar participation in the Japanese Democratic Literary Alliance and social movements, as well as his anti-war and Taiwan writings. I show that Kawai foregrounds the atrocity of war by contrasting the physical and mental suffering of soldiers on the front lines with the ordinary happiness of those on the home front. At the same time, Kawai’s personal experiences and his turn to the left are projected into the writing, allowing him to introduce carefully concealed ideas about war weariness into the text, but only in an extremely restrained way. Forced to cater to the social context of the time, anti-war sentiment and war weariness were necessarily expressed on the level of the personal rather than the political. It is this constantly thwarted desire to speak that constitutes the prevailing tone of Engagement. |