著者

高木 雅惠 高木 雅恵

出版者

九州大学大学院比較社会文化学府比較文化研究会

雑誌

Comparatio (ISSN:13474286)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, pp.1-14, 2012

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Akutagawa Ryunosuke committed suicide during the literary controversy with his rival Tanizaki Junichiro, in which Tanizaki underlined the importance of the novel's plot while Akutagawa emphasized its poetic sentiment. Before his death, Akutagawa sent Tanizaki a copy of the novella Colomba by Prosper Mérimée. The plot of Colomba describes a vendetta, but the novella is also full of romantic local color described with poetic spirit. This paper argues that Akutagawa wanted Tanizaki to understand Colomba's poetic spirit.