论志贺直哉《在城崎》中的死亡意识

SIGANAOYAS DEATH CONSCIOUSNESS OF IN KINOSAKI

日本著名作家志贺直哉的名作《在城崎》描写了三个象征性的小动物的死亡过程。蜜蜂的自然死亡给人提供了一种对死亡的日常自然的“亲切感”,死亡意识尚未突显出来;老鼠临死亡前的拼命挣扎喻示了一种强烈的死亡意识,但仍然是自然层次上的,导致死者与生者之间不能沟通;蝾螈的偶然之死则上升到对死亡的哲学思考,达到了对万物和众生的亲近感和慈悲心,但也带来一种悲观厌世的情绪。然而作者并未停留于这种情绪,而是在更深的层次上打开了一个对于死亡意识加以思考的广阔空间。

This article deeply unscrambled the well-known writer Siganaoyas famous work In Kinosaki, and makes a systematic analysis on the three symbolic creatures mentioned in the novel. It point out that bees natural death provide human with an everyday feeling of familiarity to death, where death consciousness is hidden. On the other hand, mices desperate struggle when dying expresses a strong death consciousness, but it is still in natural layer, which result it the division of feeling between lives and deaths. Axolotls sudden death rises to the philosophic layer, which achieves the graciousness and grace to all flesh, as well as a mood of pessimism and world-weariness. Yet, the author does not only remain in this mood, but opens a extensive space for thinking of death consciousness in a deeper extent.