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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2010  
         
  Article:   NAGAÏ KAFÛ, UNE HISTOIRE SINGULIÈRE À L’EST DU FLEUVE (BOKUTÔ KIDAN). TON ET COULEUR DANS LE ROMAN DE L’EXIL INTÉRIEUR / NAGAI KAFŪ, A STRANGE TALE FROM EAST OF THE RIVER (BOKUTŌ KIDAN). TONE AND COLOR IN THE NOVEL OF INTERIOR EXILE.

Authors:  RODICA FRENŢIU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The study attempts a hermeneutical analysis of the novel considered the masterpiece of the Japanese writer. Without entirely being a retrospective narrative of the autobiographical type, A Strange Tale from East of the River is, to some extent, a composition of texts in diary and correspondence style, or of a special type of intertextuality identified in the technique of mise en abyme, by introducing the novel-within-the-novel (Shissô/ Disappearance), as the events in A Strange Tale from East of the River are closely related to the writing of the other novel. A Strange Tale from East of the River becomes thus a narrative text that permanently oscillates between a pseudo-autobiographical novel (Disappearance), which tends to focus upon the existence of a character, and an autobiographical, apparently authentic one (A Strange Tale from East of the River) which highlights the voice of a narrator. This analysis attempts to point out the characteristics of the narrative strategy that transforms the writing of a novel in an act of artistic creation, revealing at the same time the elements shaping the concept of “beauty” in Nagai Kafū’s work.

Keywords: Neo-Romantic, the novel of interior exile, “novel-within-the-novel”, tone, color.
 
         
     
         
         
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