『일본 태양의 근원』과 소비에트 오리엔탈리즘

Abstract

‘Asia and East’ was the old theme of Russian literature, but there are few works about real East Asian countries. Pilnyak’s novel Korni Yaponskogo solntsa was the first to describe real Japan in Soviet literature. Like Dante in the Divine Comedy, Hero-Pilnyak travels to a foreign space - Japan and tries to understand the roots of Japan.BR However, Soviet and Japanese proletarian writers criticized the exoticism of this story and unfairly assessed this novel. In addition, they compared this novel with Pierre Loti