不道徳教育講座 [Fudōtoku kyōiku kōza]

by Yukio Mishima, 三島 由紀夫

三島由紀夫が井原西鶴の『本朝二十不孝』にならって書いたユーモラスな逆説的道徳のすすめ。ウソ、いじめ、忘恩などの悪徳を奨励し、内的欲求を素直に表現することで、近代文明社会が失った健全な精神を取り戻そうとする。そして「自分の内にある原始本能を享楽すること」こそ文明人の最大の楽しみと説く。
人間が本来持つ悪への志向を抑圧するのではなく、陽性の行為に表すことによって悪が沈静化するという主張は人間心理を鋭く見抜いており、既存の常識への抵抗を使命とする芸術家の基本姿勢でもある。結果として、まじめな道徳教育に帰結している本書は、逆説のおもしろみや機知に富んだ文章、作家の素顔をのぞかせるエピソードなどのくすぐりが満載でおもしろおかしく読むことのできる箴言集となっている。1958年の「週刊明星」に連載されたものだが、世界の中の日本を問う三島の国際人的意識は今日的であり、現代の社会を見通す鋭い眼差しにも驚かされる。（林ゆき）

341 pages, Paperback Bunko

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.

Reviews

[Roderick JingYun Huang · Rating 3 out of 5]

道德的人才需要看

[Ally Yang]

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[Ami Iida · Rating 4 out of 5]

He is a novelist coming from a bureaucrat .

It is his essay about immorality .

That is immorality of recommended.
It is playfully essay but funny.

[Shin · Rating 4 out of 5]

He wrote by immoral things in this book but by writing bad things he wanted to caution people moral is the most beautiful thing especially for Japanese