Chiaroscuros of the heart: Kokoro (Natsume S?seki-Kon Ichikawa)

Authors

  • Laura Montero Plata Investigadora independiente Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Trasvasestlc.v0i1.6745

Keywords:

Kokoro, Natsume Soseki, Kon Ichiwaka, Meiji, homosocial continuum, Y?chi Komori, Jun Et?

Abstract

Kokoro is one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature. Written in first person and in two different narrative times, Natsume S?seki's most acclaimed novel initiated a dialogue with the reality of his time; melancholy, ambiguity and irony were blended in a text of great subtlety. When filmmaker Kon Ichikawa decided to shoot Kokoro, the challenge was multiple: how to adapt a work with two voices and two narrative times? How to capture the essence of a vanishing Japan with the arrival of the Taish? era? Giving a twist to the literary source, Ichikawa focused his version on the representation of taboo, and put his film in dialogue with theoretical discourses circulating around Kokoro.

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Author Biography

Laura Montero Plata, Investigadora independiente

Laura Montero Plata es doctora en Historia del Cine por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y licenciada en Comunicación Audiovisual por la Universidad San Pablo-CEU. Forma parte de la redacción de Fila Siete y de A Cuarta Parede. Ha publicado en revistas como Secuencias, Cahiers du Cinéma España, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, 24 Monthly o Con A de Animación, Otaku Bunka y ha sido colaboradora del Festival Cines del Sur. Es programadora y co-organizadora de la Semana de Cine Japonés Actual de la EOI de Madrid desde 2010. Sus líneas de investigación giran en torno al anime y al cine contemporáneo japonés. Es autora del libro El mundo invisible de Hayao Miyazaki (actualmente en su octava edición), y también ha publicado en inglés, francés y español sobre otros autores como Isao Takahata, Satoshi Kon, Kenz? Masaoka, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kim Jee-woon o Shunji Iwai. Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: La princesa Mononoke es su libro más reciente.

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Published

2019-12-18

How to Cite

Montero Plata, L. “Chiaroscuros of the Heart: Kokoro (Natsume S?Seki-Kon Ichikawa)”. Trasvases Entre La Literatura Y El Cine, no. 1, Dec. 2019, pp. 11-36, doi:10.24310/Trasvasestlc.v0i1.6745.

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Monographic: Fertile dialogues between Japanese narrative and cinema