谷崎潤一郎と金東仁文学における美の形成としての母像

Abstract

This paper mentions how two authors, Tanizaki Junichiro and Kim Dong-In, descripted the aspect of beauty stimulated by their admiration to a dead mother through analyzing how Tanizaki depicted the reunion with his dead mother and how the aesthetic sense of Tanizaki was reflected in Kim’s work. Though the female beauty shown in Tanizaki’s works has been developed by various factors, the image of a mother cannot be ignored. Tanizaki formed an ideal of female body beauty with the memory of his mother’s white skin, and the ideal got to assume the tendency of emphasizing the eroticism. Tanizaki regarded the female body as beautiful with recalling his mother’s good looks. Such cognitive system of sensuality has been composed by the admiration to motherhood. On the other hand, Paek Sung-Su, a main character of “Fan Flame Sonata” by Kim Dong-In, idealized the image of a mother in his childhood. And the image even got to take on the tendency of Satanism after the ideal was broken. Paek eliminated the admiration to his dead mother to make a more furious and devil-like music. Eliminating the image inherent in Paek helped himself to make a decadent music by arson and necrophilia, and lastly to became a Satanist committing a murder. Even though Tanizaki and Kim have expressed the beauty promoted by the admiration to their dead mother, a clear difference can be found between the two. Dismissing the ugly image of aging mother, Tanizaki saw his dead mother always in his dream and pursued the female beauty through the memory of her good looks. On the other hand, Kim described a character called Paek pursuing only a satanic music by eliminating the admiration to his dead mother.