격차사회와 계층의 고착화 ―히가시노 게이고의 『편지(手紙)』를 중심으로― (Consolidation of Social classes: Focusing on Keigo Higashino's Letters)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국일본문화학회
· 수록지 정보 : 日本文化學報 / 91호 / 147 ~ 163페이지
· 저자명 : 박수현

초록

本論文は下流層である剛志と直貴の兄弟が「学歴」と「結婚」を通じて自分の生活を改善し、上位階層になるために努力する過程を考察したものである。直貴の家族は、親譲りの貧しさによって下流層の生活を脱することができなかったが、緒方と朝美の家族は代々受け継いだ富を基盤に裕福な生活をしてきた。作品は「家族」という社会の最小単位を通じて格差社会の様相と社会移動の可能性が低くなった社会の姿を見せている。このような社会で剛志は弟を大学に行かせようとするが教育の機会の不平等が深刻な社会で彼らが学費を工面することは不可能に等しかった。結局、剛志は窃盗と殺人を犯してしまったのだ。直貴は裕福な家の出身である朝美を妊娠させて結婚し、これを通じて上流階級に入ろうとする。しかし貧しさを理由に彼女の親に存在を否定される。作品は、親子間の階層移動性が低く機会の不平等が甚だしい社会の中で、格差が広がりさらに階層の固着化および階級の分化の現象が進んでいることを二人の兄弟を通じて示している。

영어초록

This paper examines the process of improving one's life and becoming a high-ranking person through "educational background" and "marriage." Naoki's family was unable to escape from the lower social class due to poverty; however, Ogata and Asami's family lived a rich life based on generations of wealth. Through the smallest unit of society called "family," this literary work potrays the society in which the possibility of social movement between parents and their children is reduced. In this society, Tsuyoshi wants to send his younger brother to university, but as educational opportunities are increasingly unequal, it is almost impossible for them to raise tuition fees. In the end, Tsuyoshi committed theft and murder. Naoki gets pregnant with Asami, a wealthy person, and tries to enter the upper social class through her marriage. However, her parents deny his existence because he is poor. Through the two brothers, this work shows that the gap between parents and their children is widening in the society where social mobility is low and opportunity inequality is deepening

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