《雪國》的美學分析

The Structure of Beauty in Yasunari Kawabata's ＂Snow Country＂

川端康成的《雪國》是諾貝爾文學獎的得獎作品之一，除了日本之外，在日本以外的地區也廣受歡迎，但是《雪國》是一部難解的作品，這也是不爭的事實。本論文嘗試全面地從《雪國》的美學角度來看本作品的文學價值。內容包括女性之美、自然景物之美、夜晚的美學、空無的美學及文章的修辭之美。在女性之美的部分，包括「互補的美學」、「徒勞的美學」及「悲情的美學」。在自然景物方面，包含「純粹描寫」、「自然與人事的融合」。在夜晚的美學方面，著重在與古典、近現代文學的比較方面。在文章的修辭部分主要著重在「二極對置法」及「幽玄寫法」上的分析；最後的「空無的美學」包含「死亡」及「別離」的兩個議題。

A representative work of Yasunari Kawabata's, ＂Snow Country＂ is a world-renowned novel. Despite the international acclaim, the novel is often treated as a regular piece of pornography due to its plotline surrounding a cultured protagonist who enjoys eroticism and sex, and who meets a hetaera by chance at a hot spring hotel. Although there have already existed some detailed analyses of the structure of beauty in ＂Snow Country＂, I think there is still some room for further study. By juxtaposing ＂Snow Country＂ with classical Japanese literature and traditional Japanese culture, this paper will define its aesthetics. This paper attempts to analyze the structure of beauty in the novel, including ＂feminine beauty,＂ ＂beauty of nature,＂ ＂beauty of the night,＂ ＂beauty of nothingness,＂ and ＂beauty of the rhetoric.＂