다자이(太宰治)와 ‘가정’ 이데올로기 그리고 소외자 - 「눈 오는 밤의 이야기(雪の夜の話)」를 중심으로 -

Abstract

“A Snowy Night’s Tale” seems to be a novel focusing on the bright mood and family affection which may be characterized as the major features of Dazai’s writings in the middle period. However, we can also find his concern for family egoism hidden in this novel. In other words, a person alienated from his family that appears in Dazai’s late works is also portrayed in “A Snowy Night’s Tale”, one of Dazai’s middle works. The reason why this novel involves such coexistence of both attitudes appears to be that the family ideology encouraging a happy family during the wartime period had a great deal of influence on the publishing circumstances at that time. While Dazai was never free from the then atmosphere as a professional writer who lived during the wartime period, he explicitly expressed his idea on family egoism as well. The attitudes toward to family shown in the middle and late period novels of Dazai are not contrary to each other, like praise and diatribe, but continuously critical. Moreover, the understanding of alienated people is also continuously described. “A Snowy Night Tale” which this thesis has studied can be understand more explicitly with examination on the status and background of its publication and Dazai’s awareness of family and alienated people shown in his works from early to late.