文学の「趣味主義者」梁啓超と日本語小説翻訳

Abstract

As a political person concerned with many political cases in the Chinese modern history , it may be said that Liang Qichao's literature has a deep relation with his political thought. Additionally, the political characteristics are obviously in his translation. The conventional research about Liang Qichao's literature, particularly the research on the novels which he translated when he stayed in Japan was during a period said to be at the time that he strongly advocated to save the nation and enlighten the citizens through literature, and tended to concentrate on political elements. However, Liang Qichao has wrote many articles about taste, which emphasized that he was a man who attached great importance to interest, and advocated that he was very interested in everything that he did and drew enjoyment from his work. Based on his view, the conclusion that there are only political factors in his translation, becomes a contradiction. Based on his articles on interest and fun, this paper attempts to analyze whether there are factors of interest and fun besides political factors in his Japanese novel translation.