나쓰메 소세키의 생사이면에 대한 재인식 -대환(大患) 이후를 중심으로-

Abstract

Soseki Natsume, who heard the word that he had been dead for about half an hour, thought that it would not be so great to say he was dead, and deeply felt the contrast between the two sides was so sharp that there was no negotiation. Then, as a result of Shuzen-ji Temple's serious illness, he experienced death and came to have a stronger will to overtake life and death, changing his attitude to audit the world in a disrespectful manner before the serious illness. Through his writing, one can learn well that Soseki never failed to practice Zen and devote himself to asceticism, believing that he could rise above life and death and escape from worldly concerns by pondering what it is like to die a human being. It is also worth noting that after 30 minutes of unconsciousness, he experienced death, which brought about a great change of mind, and after 10 years of blank space, he and Seol resumed composing Chinese poetry together. As shown in the Chinese poem on September 9, 1916, "In the past, people looked at humans and now they see the sky" he used to see only humans when he was buried in the world, but after he experienced the moment of death, he saw the supernatural. Soseki came to have peace for the first time in his later years on the subject of life and death that he was worried about because of his serious illness, and in his impressions he expressed that everything in the world was just as it was, as he said. see a thing as it is they came to reach the state of mind and harvest the fruits of their ascetic practices. To avoid the fear of death, Soseki tried to break the barrier between life and death, and his ascetic practices were considered to have a greater importance than anything else in his life, which shows that he was positioned as a part of his thoughts. It can be said that his mental situation after Shuzenji's great illness, which he experienced at the moment of his death, changed drastically, and he was more serious about transcendence of life and death and enlightenment of his mind. In addition, it was possible to consider the fact that Soseki focused on Chinese poetry rather than novels on his desire to achieve enlightenment and attain absolute enlightenment along with such processes of asceticism. It is considered that the change of mind after such a serious illness in Soseki's life was a major topic that cannot be overlooked from the viewpoint of Soseki's research as a person and analyzing and understanding his works.