逆光侧影:芥川龙之介《人物记》中的大正文坛群像

Profiles in Backlight:The Group Portraits of Literary Writers in Taisho Period Depicted in Akutagawa’s A Collection of Short Lives

芥川龙之介撰写的"片传",即短篇传记集《人物记》多取材大正文坛作家日常琐事,速写大正文坛作家印象。芥川特别擅长选取逆光角度由内向外延伸揭示人物性格本质,具有日本审美意识"秘"所表现的阴翳暧昧的特点。《人物记》文本与作者及传主的文字多有互文对照,实为大正文坛群像的侧面塑造。芥川作为传记作者不回避传主和自己阴暗的一面,触摸灵魂的"侧影",增强了人物的立体感。

A Collection of Short Lives,Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s biobits,draws on daily anecdotes of the writers in Taisho period and provides sketches of these characters.Akutagawa is particularly good at revealing characters from the inside out in backlight,which features the secret and ambiguous aesthetic sense of Japan.There apparent intertextuality of A Collection of Short Lives,Akutagawa’s and the biographees’texts is in fact the device to depict profiles of literary figures in Taisho period.As a biographer,he doesn’t conceal the dark side of both the biogrpahical subjects and himself,but tries to touch upon the silhouette of these souls to create the multi-dimensional sense of the portraits.