Influence of the contemporary European novels on Natsume Soseki's early works

欧洲当代小说对夏目漱石早期作品的影响

• 批准号: 15520235
• 负责人: ANDO Fumihito
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: Waseda University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2003 至 2004
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15520235/
• 关键词: Natsume Soseki; influence of foreign literature; early works; database analysis; research on the writer's collection; 漱石蔵書書き込み; The Windsor Magazine; Jerome K.Jerome

The purpose of this research project is to investigate the influence of the contemporary European novels on Natsume Soseki's early works through the analysis of his collection of foreign books.We started the project with compiling the bibliographic database of all the foreign books in Soseki's library. Though it took unexpectedly long to finish it, we then processed the database in terms of the year of publication to see their distribution. The results we obtained was that over 80% of the European books other than British and American ones were published after 1900 and most of them during 1903-1908,when Soseki wrote his first fiction, I Aw A Cat and changed careers from a teacher at The First High School and The Imperial University to a professional writer under contract to Asahi Simbun.This quantitative analysis implies that Soseki's interest and needs on the European books peaked and concentrated around his start as a professional writer, when he wrote his early works. Further research would be essential to find what kind of interest and need Soseki had on these European books in the period, though at least one hypothesis could be proposed that these European books --- most of which are English translation of contemporary continental writers' works like Daudet, Maupassant D'Annunzio, Sudermann and so on --- had considerable influence on Soseki's early works.Some researches have already been made on the influence of foreign fictions on Soseki's writings, though only on indivual bases like one of Meredith's works on Gubijinnso. This research has convinced us that we need to explore more traces of influence the contemporary European fictions had on Soseki's novels.

本研究的目的是通过对夏目漱石藏书的分析，探讨当代欧洲小说对夏目漱石早期作品的影响。虽然完成它花了出乎意料的长时间，但我们随后根据出版年份处理了数据库，以查看它们的分布。结果表明，除英美以外，欧洲80%以上的书籍都是在1900年以后出版的，其中绝大多数是在1903-1908年，也就是他的第一部小说创作时期，从第一高中和帝国大学的教师到《朝日新闻》的职业作家，对欧洲书籍的兴趣和需求达到顶峰，并集中在他开始作为一个专业作家，当他写他的早期作品。尽管至少可以提出一个假设，即这些欧洲书籍----其中大部分是当代大陆作家如都德、莫泊桑·邓南遮、苏德曼等人对草石的早期创作产生了相当大的影响，关于外国小说对草石创作的影响，已有一些研究，虽然只是在个别的基础上，如梅雷迪思的作品之一，古比金索。这一研究使我们确信，我们需要更多地探寻当代欧洲小说对草石小说的影响。