다니자키 준이치로의 「아내 살해(妻殺し) 소설」이 갖는 의미 - 『呪われた戯曲』에 나타난 부부상을 중심으로-

Abstract

For Tanizaki, the wife-killing novels have an important meaning in several ways. First, he shapes the work in several forms. It is an interesting fact that he addressed his conflict with his wife in his daily life and reflected it into his literary work. In particular, the theme of wife-killing became an important topic in works during the Taisho era, and his several attempts concerning a dialogic play, a drama, a crime novel, and a detective novel further developed his literary world. For a long time, he continued to encounter several forms of challenges, and it is an important fact that this led him to grow as a novelist even more. From 1917 to 1922, Tanizaki applied several creative techniques to his work, publishing novels, especially horror and mystery ones. His works project his in-depth understanding of daily lives by means of his particular structuring method and techniques. The sequence of wife-killing novels was written during this period of time. They represent a dialogic play, a drama, and so forth, but most of them are classified as a detective novel or a mystery novel. Taniazaki loathed the Naturalism novels, and he wrote his novels in various forms in order to prevent his wife-killing novels from being considered those depicting his own life. He did not describe his daily life as it was, and consciously applied the methods of detective stories so that his works were not regarded as the Naturalism novels. This is a proposition in his Anti-Naturalism literature, the essence of his sought-for literature.