论森鸥外的早期文学创作——对生命价值的探求与“告白”

The Early Literary Writings of Mori Ogai: Explorations and Revelations of the Values of Life

森鸥外留学德国,潜心于卫生学、军医学、文学、哲学、美学、艺术的研究。回国后,积极开展社会启蒙与文明批判,在西方哲学中寻求审美与人生的价值,发表了浪漫的青春三部曲———《舞姬》、《水沫记》和《信使》,其作品表现出来的近代性和浪漫性开日本浪漫主义文学之先河,为日本近代文学的确立打下了坚固的基础,是研究日本近代文学不可忽视的重要内容。

Mori Ogai studied abroad in Germany, where he concentrated on research in the fields of hygienics, milltary surgery, literature, philosophy, aesthetics and art. After his return home, he was actively involved in social enlightenment and civil criticism and quest of aesthetic judgment and the value of life and published his romantic trilogy： The Dancer, The Foam, and The Messenger. Because of the modern and romantic characteristics, his works became the forerunner of Japanese literary romanticism, laid a solid foundation for the establishment of modern Japanese literature, and became a significant part not to be ignored in the study of modem Japanese literature.