The Westerner and The Sequel of The Westerner(「改造」 1927.8~9) are Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s suicide notes, in which his life is metaphorically compared to Jesus’ life. He thought that many misunderstandings about his works were derived from lack of understanding on naturalism at that time, so he devoted himself to eradication of the ignorance by every means, as Voltaire did against the corruption of Middle Age Christianity. As the Bible and his works are composed of poetic language, such as symbol and allegory, paradox and metaphor, it is impossible to explain them with logical or scientific methods of naturalism. Their hard and long struggle for poetic justice(truth), so-called the liberation war for art by Georg Lukacs in the study of esthetics, is caused by both sided effect on the paradox of allegory. Therefore, the final purpose of these works is not to write the life of Jesus and human destiny, but to show Akutagawa’s life and literature struggled for clarification of truth, just like Jesus crucified in an inversion of the truth.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.