Vita Sexualis - Ita Sexualis

…Although he opposed naturalism as the spiritual pillar of magazines such as Subaru and Mita Bungaku, which were the bases of aestheticism, his own style of writing went beyond the bounds of romanticism and was far more diverse. His work Vita Sexualis (1909), which coldly examined and described the history of his own sexual desire, was banned and caused controversy, but many of his short stories drew their subject matter from facts in his personal life. His former militant enlightenment was a distant memory, and his writing style was generally elegant and refined, with a high level of refinement in his colloquial style. …

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…《スバル》《三田文学》など，耽美主義の拠点となった雑誌の精神的支柱として自然主義と対立したが，自身の作風はロマンティシズムの枠をこえて，はるかに多彩だった。自己の性欲史を冷徹に点検，叙述した《ヰタ･セクスアリス》(1909)は発禁処分を受けて話題になったが，身辺の事実に題材を求めた短編も多い。かつての戦闘的な啓蒙性は影をひそめ，作風は総じて玲瓏（れいろう）かつ端正で，口語体に統一された文体も格調が高い。…

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