Study Of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's Historcial Novel

Historical novel,an important part of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's works,is the condensation of his spiritual value and artistic value.His works with the deeply influence of Chinese and western culture,and his own charms.For a comprehensive understanding of his historical novel,this paper from three aspects: the origin and development of Akutagawa's historical novel,to reclassification Akutagawa's historical novel,and the characteristics of Akutagawa's historical novel.Japan's critics Yoshida Seiichi divided Akutagawa's historical novel into five categories,respectively Dynasty,Edo content,Chinese content,Kirisitanmono and civilization.Dynasty and edo content with Japanese traditional classics culture as the material source,Among them,Rashomon etc comes out of the heian era's subaltern talk set Konjaku Monogatarishu,content focus on “secular”and “evil”and part of dharma,is the important source of Akutagawa's historical novel's breath of life and feral beauty.Nose and Zigokuhen etccomes out of Kamakura era's subaltern talk set Uji Shui Monogatari,human's weak,stupid,and the pursuit of material affect Akutagawa's historical novel.Also,Gesakuzanmai etc comes from the edo period celebrity matter creation into article,Carrying his artistic view and thinking about life.Chinese content is based in the chinese classic or set in china,Du Zichun etc follows the werid and something congenial solemnity,which is come from Liao zhai zhi yi and the Tang legends.Kirisitanmono and civilization is Akutagawa's product affected by Christian culture and Western literature,Lucifer,Yin,Gods smile and so on are his exploration and thinking in evil and devil,martyrdom,apostate,and the religious and cultural conflicts.Civilization as Fu's chastity and dance are the reaction of the western novel culture and the Japanese society after civilized.Visible,explore the Japan,China and Western culture origin has a great significance of Akutagawa's historical novel research.Imitative,as one of important ways of Japanese novels,is also the main way of Akutagawa's historical novels.As a way of writing activities,performance in the practical creative activities for newly organized,adaptation,copy writing,widening and borrow.Susa no O no Mikoto introduces of fictitious method,In Bamboos use of polyphonic structure with characteristics of detective stories.Faith of Wei Sheng fuses the classical Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy,inspire the philosophical thinking of life.On the basis of clear its sources,to explore Akutagawa's historical novels expressed by the pursuit of literature and art creation and to the life of the deep philosophical thinking,by analysis of material handling.Akutagawa's historical novel's creative features performance at two levels.One is the human nature view and artistic view,which premised on good and evil.Akutagawa thought,don't understand “integration between good and evil”,just couldn't understand art.The complexity of moral stance complicating the human nature,the charm of Akutagawa's art is from the complex human nature,just he is more tend to find strength from the evil.The second is in “micro-history” and “epochal character” conducted under the dual attention from microcosmic personal history to the macro social history step to step to deepen.Personal,appearing in their daily life,is amplified and surrounded in the era background,individual and age society complement each other.All in all,through layer upon layer thorough way to know Akutagawa's historical novel,we can know that Akutagawa is still a traditional writer.His holdings in the cultural collision of the east stand and the tendency of tradition Japanese and Chinese culture will be great help for dialogue between eastern and western culture.