エゴイズムから破局まで : 志賀直哉の「佐々木の場合」に於ける語り手の自己中心性について

Abstract

Sasaki no Baai (here translated 'The Case of Sasaki') was written in 1913,but not published until 1917. In the intervening years, Shiga married, lost his first child, reached the high point of his dispute with his father, and finally achieved a reconciliation. This period has generally been recognised as marking a turning point in Shiga's outlook as an author. In contrast with the resolute, and often dogmatic self-assertion to be found in many previous works such as "Han no Hanzai" ('Han's Crime', 1913), Shiga's writing after 1917 usually reflects a fundamentally trustful attitude towards his heroes' existential environments, taken in the broadest sense. Coming as it does immediately before this change of outlook, this seldom discussed work offers us an intriguing insight into the reasons that may have led Shiga to a break with his earlier egocentric approach to life's problems.