文章讀本

by Yukio Mishima

我寫這本書的目的，就是期望能引導普通讀者，
進一步成為精讀讀者。
請容我區區一介小說家講句僭妄的話，
我認為，作家首先必須也是一個精讀讀者……

　　● 11月25日為三島過世40週年

　　1954　潮騷獲得第一屆新潮社文學賞
　　1957　金閣寺獲得第八屆讀賣文學賞

　　法國文學家批評家蒂博代（Albert Thibaudet）把小說的讀者區分成兩類，一類是「普通讀者」，另一類是「精讀讀者」。

　　三島寫本書的目的即是期望能引導普通讀者，進一步成為精讀讀者。而且三島認為，要成為作家，首先必須要成為精讀讀者，若沒有經過精讀讀者的階段，就不能真正品味文學本身，若對文學缺乏品味，自己也無法成為好作家。

　　本書並沒有特定侷限在介紹某幾種文類，或排出文類的優劣階級，三島只是希望能以客觀的立場，介紹每類文章的趣味，告訴讀者如何領略每種類型的文章之美。

　　對於熟悉三島文學的讀者來說，這本書同時也是三島對自己作品的解說書，它停下了織就三島作品的飛梭，讓我們能夠好好看清中間那縱橫交錯的理性經線與官能緯線。

本書特色

　　在三島執筆寫這本書之前，谷崎潤一郎與川端康成都分別寫過品評文學的書，而且書名都叫《文章讀本》。谷崎潤一郎在他的《文章讀本》一書中主要鼓吹大眾創作更多的通俗文學，鼓勵讀者「多讀多寫」，「文章沒有實用與藝術的區別」，但顯然三島對這個觀點不以為然，所以他也寫了一本《文章讀本》，闡述他個人的觀點。

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

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

[Jinwoo Bang · Rating 5 out of 5]

나는 되도록 자신의 취향이나 편견을 버리고 모든 양식의 글의 재미를 인정하고, 또 모든 양식의 글의 아름다움에 민감해지고자 한다.