The Image Of Children In Le Clezio's Children's Literatur

Takehiro Irokawa,known as the ’Last of the Relentless Faction’,made his debut on the Japanese literary scene in 1961 with Black Cloth,however,due to a chronic illness,it took more than ten years until he returned to pure literary creation.After his return,he received a series of awards for his short stories,including The Suspicious Visitors’ Book,Hundred,Divorce and his last work,Diary of a Madman,but he died suddenly,as if his life had burned out.Irokawa described himself as someone who belonged to the underclass,always looking at the world from the lowest strata,depicting the customs of the towns,the prosperity and sorrow of the geisha,the daily life and fleeting fate of the underclass,pursuing his relationship with his father at the origin of his own humiliation and exploring the unique survival philosophy of the ’underclass’.This paper will use inferiority as a keyword to examine the characters in Irokawa’s works,typical themes,philosophical speculation on inferiority,the causes of the generation of inferiority,and the criticality inherent in it.In Chapter 1,three sections are devoted to examining Irokawa’s portrayal of the characters of the inferiority complex:the group portraits,the individual character biographies and the characteristics of the techniques used to portray these characters.Chapter 2 focuses on the father-son relationship,which has been written about over a long period of time in Irokawa’s works.The aim is to reveal how the images of fathers and the father-son relationship are portrayed and what clashes of values are reflected in the father-son relationship,from Black Cloth,written from the father’s perspective,to To the Birthplace,Hundred and Eternal Day,written from the son’s perspective.In Chapter 3,two key words,balance’ and ’rolling’,are extracted from the context,and with reference to Bataille’s theory of the "le sommet" and’le d6clin’,in order to elucidate what kind of philosophical speculation is embedded in Irokawa’s narrative of ’inferiority’.In Chapter 4,we will focus on Irokawa’s war and illness experiences to study the causes of the generation of inferiority and the criticality of the narratives,and examine them in the light of the theories about psychological trauma.