Abstract EN:

In the sixties, there appears in the Japanese comic scene a new genre of narrative, referred to by the critics as the "I comic", in echo of the literary style of the "I novel". Its boundaries and characteristics, however, remain vague to this day. The thesis is an attempt to define the subject genre through examples from the works of four authors : Tsuge Yoshiharu (1937-) who drew his inspiration from his own youth, journeys and dreams; Takita Yû (1932-1990) who found interest first in his own childhood and later, in retracing his own adult life; Tsuge Tadao (1941-) whose stories dealt with the legacies of the Second World War, and Abe Shinichi (1950-) whose works were close reflections of his private life. The authors, each in their own way, devoted their talents to express with great sincerity their inner selves, choosing themselves as the raw material based on which the texts were created, while also showing discretion never to yield to the compassion of their egos.