芥川の浪漫的文学相について : 「分身」を中心として = The Romantic Moments in Akutagawa Ryunosuke's works － Centering Around the Doppelganger －

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This thesis attempts to study the literary tendency of Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
The literature of Akutagawa arouses the curiosity of the readers and leads them to the eccentric world. In his literary world, some strange and unrealistic things happen, which features one of his literary styles. His literary tendency involves paranoiac love which creates the Doppelganger, a prevalent motif throughout the nineteenth century European literature. This paper will explore how the motif, Doppelganger, operates what kind of meaning it has in his works.
In the main part, I will focus on two works, ‘The Shadow' and ‘Two Letters', in both of which Akutagawa treates the doppelganger seriously. In both works, the main character encounters his trouble. This appearance of doppelganger can be translated as a result of distrust, jealousy and hatred against his wife. His paranoiac conditions are developed into the dissociation of personality which in turn causes his trouble.
The problem of Akutagawa's affection permeates throughout his works. He cannot love anybody openly. Even though he falls in love with someone, he restrains his feelings and keeps them only in his mind. His confined love brings about the dissociation of his personality and motivates his two novels, ‘The shadow’ and ‘Two letters’, which reflect his state of mind through the paranoiac expression of love. His extremely tense love and longing for love itself drives him to find the only way to express himself in his literary works as a form of Doppelganger, which has to be negative and abnormal.

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