江戶川亂步 「人間椅子」試論－狄更斯的影響

The influence of Dickens on Rampo Edogawa’s“The Human Chair”

「人間椅子」為亂步在大正十四年十月於『苦樂』所發表的作品，關於這篇作品，常常在研究史上被提及與他作之間的關條，例如高橋世織曾論及本作與「蒲団」（『新小說』明治四十年九月），或是宇野浩二的「葳の中」（『文章世界』大正八年四月）作品間的關係。再者，本作甚至亦被提及與其他純文學作家，例如朔太郎、穀崎、賢治、梶井等作家作品之間的關係。參照以上這些文獻，可以得知諸多研究皆明確指出本作與他作之間的影響關係。進而實際檢視亂步作品，亦能發現亂步常在自作中實際提及其他作家的作品名，甚或是在文章中明確指出受到其他作家的影響，因此，更易於聯想他的創作與他作之間的關連性。但關於「人間椅子」作品的背景，亂步卻始終未曾提及此篇作品與他作之間是否有任何聯繫。也因為這個緣故，關於此篇作品的影響關係、材源問題至今仍存在相當大的探討空間。本論文將探討亂步的「人間椅子」，主要是參照狄更斯的作品「旅商人之話」為底本而完成的部分；首先，將優先解讀「人間椅子」這篇作品，在進行文本分析的同時，也探討文本中哪個部分是以狄更斯的作品「旅商人之話」為素材？其用意何在？以這樣的觀點來探討，才能找到作者賦予本作的意圖。

”The Human Chair” released in ”Kuraku” magazine by Rampo Edogawa in October 1925, is often mentioned the relation with other works in the history of Literature research. It was also referred to 'Futon' (”Shinshyousetu” , Sep 1907) and Koji Uno's 'In the Storehouse' (”Bunshyosckai”, Apr 1919) by Seori Takahash, not to mention other writers’ works such as Sakutaro, Tanizaki, Kenzi, and Kazii .. ,etc. Many writers’ articles also got a mention in Rampo Edogawa's fictions if we survey his works thoroughly. Even he would point out the influence of other writers on his articles explicitly. For the reasons above, the evidence of correlation between Edogawa's works and others is easily connected.It's odd that however, Edogawa never make any reference to the background of ”The Human Chair” with others' works. For this reason, there will be more issues to probe into, for example, the relation to other works, the reference sources and the effect on this fiction. This research mainly makes a study of Edogawa's ”The Human Chair” bascd on Dickens' ”The Bagman's Story”. ”The Human Chair” wi ll be interpreted first. While contextual analysis wi ll be procceding, the discussing about which part of story was written based on Dickens' ”The Bagman's Story” is continued. So is the purpose of Rampo Edogawa, inorder to find out the essence of this fiction .