Imagination of New Coexistence and Harmony: Focusing on Hiroyuki Itsuki’s “Good-bye Moscow”

This article aims to consider the imagination of new coexistence and harmony through the reading of Hiroyuki Itsuki(五木寛之)’s debut work, “Good-bye Moscow” (さらば,モスクワ愚連隊). This work, which was carried out from the perspective of Kitami(北見)=“I,” who was a jazz pianist and is currently representing a performing company, is a kind of middlebrow fiction published in 1966, and has been read as a text to redefine his origin through a Soviet boy named Misha. This paper also focuses on the speaker “I,” who is different from the character “I,” to explain where and how the speaker develops the novel, and what the imagination of new coexistence and harmony implies by overlapping the intended or unintended meaning of the narrative and expression with contemporary Japanese context.