漱石の『坑夫』と『野分』から見た『こころ』の死

Abstract

Soseki described the isolation from, and the desire of, death of Takayanagi in Nowake and the anxiety about death in Kohu. But these expressions about these anxiety, isolation, and desire are like the symptoms of a neurosis. The expression about the anxiety about death in Kohu does not make sense logically and the isolation in Nowake is also just repeated again and again. The reason why he became lonely and anxious is not written. So these novels seem to express the sick heart of Soseki. While Kokoro described the reason and process to become lonely and how to decide the suicide of the hero deeply, it may be said that Soseki completed to describe his isolation, anxiety and the desire concerning death in Kokoro. Generally speaking, Kokoro concerns the suicide of the hero who died because of his pangs of conscience to K. But according to this understanding, K was lonely and he could not bear his loneliness and the hero was also lonely and he could not bear his loneliness any more. So it may be said that the hero and K in Kokoro commit suicide because of the loneliness and this is the completion of literature which has continued from Nowake and Kohu.