붓차티 텍스트에 표상하는 일본 인식: 저널과 문학 사이에서 (Recognition of Japan Represented in Buzzati’s Text: Between Journalism and Literature)

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초록

With the recent rise in Italy of cultural interest towards East Asia, the Western world’s prejudices, misconceptions, and discriminations against East Asia, which originated from fantasies, romantic idealism, or ignorance, are being questioned. This study investigates the perceptions of Japan as depicted in the works of Buzzati, a writer who greatly influenced 20th century Italian journalism and literature. Buzzati, who was the senior journalist of a major Italian daily newspaper called ‘Corriere della Sera’, visited Tokyo in 1963 to cover the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, as well as touring Japan in general, and wrote 15 articles. Based on his experience of Japan outside the boundaries of ‘reality’ as perceived by the Western world, Buzzati bridged the gap between objective observation and personal experience with literary techniques, thereby allowing his readers a closer experience of Japan.
The combination of objective information, fantasy, elements of fairy tales, as well as literary techniques in Buzzati’s writings lies between journalism and literature and hence, was a refreshing and novel attempt. Buzzati’s ‘literary articles’ were significant because they were diverse and new, which allowed the readers to touch, feel, taste, smell, and judge, which was the way Buzzati experienced Japan, rather than passively receive objective information. However, although this form of writing was more advanced than other articles that evaluated Japan based on Western political and philosophical values, it failed to overcome the frame of Orientalism, since the articles were based on a Western man’s experience.

영어초록

With the recent rise in Italy of cultural interest towards East Asia, the Western world’s prejudices, misconceptions, and discriminations against East Asia, which originated from fantasies, romantic idealism, or ignorance, are being questioned. This study investigates the perceptions of Japan as depicted in the works of Buzzati, a writer who greatly influenced 20th century Italian journalism and literature. Buzzati, who was the senior journalist of a major Italian daily newspaper called ‘Corriere della Sera’, visited Tokyo in 1963 to cover the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, as well as touring Japan in general, and wrote 15 articles. Based on his experience of Japan outside the boundaries of ‘reality’ as perceived by the Western world, Buzzati bridged the gap between objective observation and personal experience with literary techniques, thereby allowing his readers a closer experience of Japan.
The combination of objective information, fantasy, elements of fairy tales, as well as literary techniques in Buzzati’s writings lies between journalism and literature and hence, was a refreshing and novel attempt. Buzzati’s ‘literary articles’ were significant because they were diverse and new, which allowed the readers to touch, feel, taste, smell, and judge, which was the way Buzzati experienced Japan, rather than passively receive objective information. However, although this form of writing was more advanced than other articles that evaluated Japan based on Western political and philosophical values, it failed to overcome the frame of Orientalism, since the articles were based on a Western man’s experience.

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