Kazoku Game No Seiki NATSUME SOSEKI "Meian" Wo (Ima Yomu! Meicho)

[Machine Translation] In his critiques and lectures, Natsume Soseki often discussed macroscopic changes in the state and society during the great Meiji era, but in his novels, he continued to write detailed stories that microscopically focus on the detailed and complex relationships between people, while incorporating political, economic, and other public issues in the background. In particular, he always paid attention to "Family," where the friction between the rapidly changing society and the private sphere that is being hastened by the rapid changes is most clearly expressed, and always touched upon it in such representative works as "Then," "Kokoro," and "Michikusa. The last work in this vein is "Mei An" (Light and Dark). In this book, we will attempt to examine the "family" as it continues to change, starting from Soseki's time and moving back and forth between the time 100 years ago and our own present.

夏目漱石は、評論や講演では、明治という大きな時代変化の中での国家や社会の変化を巨視的に論じることが多かったが、一転して小説では、背景に政治、経済といった公的領域の問題を組み込みつつも、人と人との細やかで複雑な関係を微視的に見つめる細やかな物語を書き続けた。特に、急速に変化していく社会と、それに急かされていく私的領域との軋轢が最も顕著に表れる「家族」には常に注意を注ぎ続け、『それから』『こころ』『道草』などの代表的作品で常に触れてきた。そんな流れの最後の作品が『明暗』である。本書では、今も変質し続けている「家族のありかた」について、漱石の時代を始点として読み解きながら、一〇〇年前の時間と私たちの現在を行き来しつつ考察していくことを試みる。