Earticle

초록

영어

This study examines how the concept of naturalism formulated by Emile Zola was transformed through its reception in Japan and how that transformed discourse was critically appropriated by Lu Xun.Unlike Western literary movements, which developed gradually through succession and reaction, East Asian literary modernity emerged through the rapid reception and selective adaptation of Western ideas in the early twentieth century. In China, Western literary thought was introduced not directly but through Japan and was reconfigured according to local historical and social conditions. Realism shaped modern literary consciousness and later developed into naturalism, whose theoretical foundation can be traced to Zola’s conception of literature as an experimental field for observing society. When naturalism entered Japan, however, it underwent significant transformation and developed into a confessional mode of writing centered on the exposure of private life and inner consciousness. The publication of The Quilt by Tayama Katai and The Broken Commandment by Shimazaki Toson marked the consolidation of this tendency. Lu Xun encountered Japanese naturalism during his years of study in Japan from 1902 to 1909, but he did not simply adopt its confessional orientation and instead redirected techniques of naturalistic description toward a broader diagnosis of national and social crisis. In his literary practice, individual pathology became a symptom of collective spiritual paralysis and historical conditions, and naturalism in modern Chinese literature developed in close interaction with realism, enlightenment discourse, and critical social criticism. In the late 1920s, Lu Xun turned from fiction to essays and emphasized direct social criticism and ethical intervention, while the Chinese scholar Cheng Fangyu identified him as a naturalist writer. This study argues that the naturalistic elements in Lu Xun’s writings should be understood not as formal affiliation with a fixed literary school, but as historically transformed literary strategies shaped by the intellectual and social conditions of modern China.

저자

• 박경진

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  동북아 문화연구 [Journal of North-east Asian Cultures]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3692

• 수록기간

  2001~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 910 DDC 950