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This essay focuses on the “Evacuation Generation(Sokaiha)”, who insisted on generational thought by constructing war experiences as a postwar theory. The insistence of the “Evacuation Generation” was appeared as a form of contrasting with the “War Generation”. The specific movement of “Evacuation Generation” can be confirmed form the magazine, Sokaiha. In Sokaiha, they tried to set up postwar theory through their war experiences. Their criticism of postwar democracy, it can be confirmed from their essays and novels about “Postwar Generation”, Especially those related to Oe Kenzaburo, who called himself “Postwar Generation”, “Postwar Democrat”. Especially Yuri Haj ime, he criticized Oe Kenzaburo, because Oe couldn’t have a war experience as a country boy. In conclusion, I examined that the “Evacuation Generation” couldn’t be generalized as a specific, unique generation insistence.

Kuroi Senji conducted an experiment through his novel, The Holy Labor Week. As a result of this experiment, which was expected to fail, he discovered the “vacancy of the self ”, which is very symbolic of his style of introversion. In fact, Kuroi Senji is representative of the Introverted Generation. In this paper, I analyze The Holy Labor Week to show that Kuroi’s introversion appeared as the “vacancy of the self,” and it is accompanied by physical senses, especially tactile sense. It is required that considering about not a style of introversion, but a feature of generation, in terms of studying about the Introverted Generation.

本稿は、高井有一「北の河」を〈内向の世代〉文学として読み直す試みである。現実社会の中の「不確かな私」という問題と向かい合うために、本小説では疎開地での母の死という過去が召喚され、問い直されている。母の死の記憶を回想する営みが、一九七〇年前後の文学における〈内向〉性の意味と、戦争という状況との〈世代〉的距離の所在を示していることを明らかにした。, 本稿は、日本学術振興会科学研究費奨励金（特別研究員奨励費）による研究成果の一部である。