Re-reading Ogai Mori's "Sanshodayu" : The Plot of the Children on the Run

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  • 森鴎外「山椒大夫」の可能性 : 子どもたちの逃走/闘争
  • モリ オウガイ サンショウダユウ ノ カノウセイ コドモ タチ ノ トウソウ トウソウ

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"Sanshodayu" has been often criticized for the modernistic attitude of the author who deplorably eliminated all pre-modern cruelties of the original fable in the process of adaptation. Even now most critics seem to hold the story in the same light, for they often negatively interpret it while referring to "Sanshodayu-kou," Kunio Yanagida's ethnographical essay about the fable. But I think such comparison between the original and its adaptation is rather futile. Instead it must be more appropriate to read "Sanshodayu" as a literary text per se. What is most important is not whether it is faithfully based on the original but how we can discover its immanent literary value in terms of narration, plot, and structure.

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