困顿与超越——芥川文学经典的现代性重构

Dilemma and Transcendence: The Modernity Reconstruction of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's Literary Classics

芥川龙之介是日本大正文学的代表作家,在"西洋憧憬"与"回归传统"对立冲突的语境下,受困于"人工"(理性)与"自然"(感性)的二元悖论,成为贯穿其创作生涯的一条主线,其核心内容为"困顿与超越"。具体表现在三个方面:1.对自我主体性的审美启蒙;2.对西方拯救主义的质疑;3.拒绝世俗化的平庸,追求永恒与崇高。"芥川之死"具有反思现代性问题的象征意义。

Being a representative of Taisho Literature in Japan, and living in the conflicting contexts of “longing for the West” and “returning to the tradition”, Akutagawa Ryunosuke was set in the dilemma between the binary antinomy of the “artificial” (sensibility) and the “natural” (sense), which becomes the leading line of his writing career with the core of “dilemma and transcendence”. This is demonstrated in the three aspects of: 1. aesthetic enlightenment of subjectivity; 2. query into the Western redemption; 3. refusal of the mediocre of secularization,and pursuit of eternity and sublime. “The death of Akutagawa Ryunosuke” has the symbolic meaning of reflecting over the issue of modernity.