@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:02000113,
 author = {西岡, 宇行 and NISHIOKA, Takayuki},
 journal = {JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This article aims to offer a new perspective on Ōe Kenzaburō’s novel Letters for Nostalgic Years (Natsukashii toshi eno tegami, 1987) through examining Ōe’s essays on post-war literary figures. In these essays, Ōe points out that the basic attitude of the postwar literary figures was to make independent judgement based on the individual and he indicates that they have their own “righteousness” (gi). This kind of righteousness—in this paper called “individual righteousness” (kojin no gi) —is identified as an important concept that links these essays with the novel. This article shows that Gee, who is a patron-like figure of “I” in the novel, has such righteousness. Indeed, Gee is depicted as a type of character who shares a lot in common with Ōe’s post-war literary figures. By analyzing Ōe’s essays, this paper argues that the novel tries to face the question of how the individual’s imagination can be connected to the collective imagination, an idea which Ōe seems to have inherited from other post-war literary figures, and that lies behind the use of the word “righteousness.” The novel carefully describes the process in which an act from Gee’s <individual righteousness> emerges from the inter-subjective exchange of “I”, his family and Gee through interpreting Dante’s Divina Comedia. By tracing the process by which individuality arises from collectivity, Ōe tries to show that the individual can open a channel to collectivity, paradoxically through sticking to one’s own imagination and following one’s norm until the end. This article concludes that this novel is an attempt by Ōe to carry on the attitude of postwar literary figures.},
 pages = {204--216},
 title = {大江健三郎『懐かしい年への手紙』に書き込まれる「義」のありよう : 戦後文学者の意志の継承というモチーフ},
 volume = {12},
 year = {2021}
}