Foreign versions of Akutagawa's affirmative rhetoric "it was certain that…"

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  • Nishino Tsuneo
    Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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  • 芥川龍之介の断定修辞「…に違ひなかつた」の外国語訳

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The high frequency in use without apparent reason of the fatalistic affirmation "it was certain that…" in Akutagawa's late autobiographical short stories "Cogwheels" and "A fool's life" makes the writer's style very unique and can even confuse the reader. The difficulty in understanding possible reasons for his use of this affirmation are more explicit in English, French and Russian versions, where the translators often seem to give up the idea of preserving the meaning of this expression and simply eliminate it. In the foreign versions, as a result, Akutagawa's style is more moderate and less fatalistic than in the Japanese original.

Journal

  • Comparatio

    Comparatio 5 82-90, 2001-03-20

    Society of Comparative Culｔural Studies, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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  • CRID
    1390853649766776704
  • NII Article ID
    110007159039
  • NII Book ID
    AA11370798
  • DOI
    10.15017/16010
  • HANDLE
    2324/16010
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Article Type
    departmental bulletin paper
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • IRDB
    • CiNii Articles
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    Allowed

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