西洋・日本・韓国3文化圏における美のメカニズム比較分析研究

Abstract

In this study, I extract commonalities and differences of aesthetic mechanisms among three cultural zones: the West, Japan and Korea. The approach is to analyze and review the impact relations in expressing the beauty between Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, Tanizaki and Kim Dong In, representing their own nations’ Yumiism (estheticism). Tanizaki’s devilish expression of beauty is not creative but was affected by Baudelarie. He builds up the format that the devil equals the beauty, thinking that the devil is not formed from a reality but is created by an artist, especially while he engraves a tattoo on a woman’s back. This tendency of his aesthetic consciousness is a different point from Baudelarie’s. We can identify and feel the Baudelarie’s devilish aesthetic consciousness of Kim Dong In’s literature. The main reason is that the Japanese literature has played the transmitter’s roles in the Korean literature. It is Tanizaki who acts as a bridge between Baudelarie and Kim Dong In. The expression of beauty with the frenetic style in the novel of ‘Sonata of a Fanatic Flame’ is extremely similar to Baudelarie’s style owing to the influence of Tanizaki. Despite the Tanizaki’s impact, we cannot feel the sensual beauty of a woman which is pursued by Tanizaki on Kim Dong In’s literature. It is a common point of the literary world of three authors that beauty is expressed from vice by the impact relations inherited from Baudelarie through Tanizaki to Kim Dong In, but it is different in their artistic perspective because Kim Dong In is willing to kill a man for art, while Tanizaki has the belief that the strong equals the devilish female beauty.