@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002254,
 author = {李, 貞熙 and LEE, Choung-Hee},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {19},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {pdf, Many of the characters in the novels of Abe Kobo are problematic, in that they reflect various problems our modern society embraces. Abe's works are essentially experimental, because he describes how the characters act within the fictional space. What makes it difficult for the reader to understand the behaviour and thoughts of the characters lies in Abe's highly sophisticated creative ways of thinking and representation: the existential questioning of human existence, the development of a surrealist fantastical world, the construction of situations derived from a complete sense of four-dimensional space.
What lies at the core of his unique devices of story-telling is "metamorphosis" or transformation, whose processes are delicately captured. This is not to say that Abe merely casts his ideas into images within the framework of his definitive theoretical scheme. In this way, his imaginative powers drive his readers headlong into their own fantastical adventure. His chief motif is transformation A and the fictional space which changes itself through his method of "metamorphosis" can be said to be what his creativity crystallizes into.
If we pay attention only to the details of the novels without perceiving the perpetual transformation of his fictional space, we will find Abe's works seem nothing but strange, bizarre, and fantastical. It is quite natural that his readers attempt to find the key to understand his difficult world through going beyond the limits of his text. However, we need to actively approach the novels with the determinnation to reconstruct the process of streamlined transformation of the fictional space through the effect of individual settings. A close reading of the text is, therefore, essential. This strategy is to be the close analysis of Abe's signs through which we should see what is unseen.
I would like to investigate the meaning and function of metamorphosis in Abe's works―in particular "Dendrocacalia" (1949), "The Red Cocoon" (1950), and "The Crime of S. Karuma" (1951) ―and to consider tentatively how Abe represents human existences.},
 pages = {87--110},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表　安部公房の小説における<変身>のモチーフをめぐって　―初期作品を中心として―},
 year = {1996},
 yomi = {リ, テイヒ}
}