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国際日本文学研究集会会議録. 2013, 36, p. 101-120

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2013-03-31

https://doi.org/10.24619/00001924

OTSU JUNKICHI (1912) is a writing in which the protagonist “I” who is also the narrator of this story, recollects his past incidents. This writing is known as a monumental piece of work of Shiga Naoya that raised him to the stature of a professional writer. Most of previous researches are tend to relate the incident of the writing with that of writer’s real life incident while analyzing it. This paper, however, looks at the story as an independent piece of pure literary work and attempts to analyze the story by disassociating “I” with that of writer’s real life and focuses on to find out the place of “I” portrayed in the writing. It is significant to understand I’s psychological complexity while analyzing the story. For instance, the opening sentences of the story show that how on one hand “I” follows the teachings of Christianity that admonishes the act of adultery and on the other hand his perverse fascination for girls gets stronger and stronger. This admonishment of adultery and fascination for girls create severe mental conflict in “I”. At the same time, the prohibition of adultery can also be considered to have transformed I’s feeling towards girls. Further, it is also important to talk about I’s understanding while assaying the story. “I” the narrator, finds himself in a state of confusion regarding the mingling of two different sexes freely, even when he was not under the influence of Christian teachings any more. This could be drawn from the following excerpt of the story, i.e. “At this point of time, I am ashamed of my weakness that forces me to follow the ideals. However, even if similar kind of situation comes to me now, I suspect that whether I, who is already a changed man, would adhere to my original character and likeness and be able to follow it or not. Perhaps I can’t.”(Chapter 1-4) Furthermore, I’s diverse way of interacting with the two girls “Musume”and Chiyo can be made a topic of discussion. In order to comprehend such a changing attitude of “I”, it is significant to look at it by relating to his original personality.

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志賀直哉『大津順吉』における「私」の心理

モインウッディン, モハンマド

国文学研究資料館

Japanese

2013-03-31

国際日本文学研究集会会議録

36

101

120

https://doi.org/10.24619/00001924

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/89297