《舞会》和鹿鸣馆外交

Dance and Rokumekan’s Diplomacy

芥川龙之介的短篇小说《舞会》叙述了日本贵族小姐明子和一位法国军官皮埃尔.洛蒂在鹿鸣馆舞会上的一段邂逅。作者借明子和皮埃尔.洛蒂在舞会中的言谈举止描写了当时日本人对西方的盲目崇拜,旨在讽刺当时日本外交的极端欧化表象。尤其是小说出人意料的结局处理更是深化了这一主题,日本人眼中的西方和西方人眼中的日本存在着认识上的不对等,以及精神层面的不平等。本文尝试结合鹿鸣馆时期的外交政策,来分析这部小说所表现的主题和思想内涵。

The short story, Dance, written by Akutawagw Lyunosuke, tells a chance meeting between the Japanese noblewoman, Miss. Akiko and the French officer, Mr. Pierre Lotty in Rokumekan＇ s dance. Using Miss. Akiko＇ s communicating manner and behavior with Mr. Pierre Lotty, the writer describes Japanese＇ s blind worship to the west at that time, which purposely satirizes that the Japa- nese diplomacy is extremely Europeanized. What＇ s more, the unpredictable ending expresses this theme deeply, that is, what the west is in Japanese＇ s eye is quite uneven in awareness and unequal in spirit with that in what Japan is in the west＇ s eye. This article tries to combine the Rokumekan＇ s diplomacy to analyze this novel＇ ,q theme and thought intention.