| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study of comparative literature the state of the "I" in the works of Franz Kafka is compared with that of a Swiss novelist Robert Walser and Japanese "I novels". These novels have a characteristic in common that the experiences of the authors are strongly reflected in the works, meanwhile political or social problems are thoroughly excluded. The characteristic does not come from their mutual influences but chiefly from the historical, cultural or personal fact that these works were produced in the peripheries which were away from the major tradition of European modern literature. The peripheral position of these writers let them approach "small literature" (Kafka) which concentrate on the truth of self-experiences, and it breathed new life into the the dominant tradition of modern literature.
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