Arakure

A full-length novel by Tokuda Shusei. It was published in the Yomiuri Shimbun from January 12 to July 24, 1915 (Taisho 4). It was published by Shinchosha in September of the same year. Oshima, who has a strong temper, does not get along with her stepmother, so she is adopted at the age of 7, runs away from her foster home at the age of 18, and becomes a second wife the following year, but her "natural rebellious spirit" causes her to run away again, become a maid at a hot spring inn in the mountains, and have an affair with the owner. She returns to Tokyo and lives with Onoda, a clothing merchant, and works like a man, but is dissatisfied with her husband and falls in love with a young craftsman who is a servant. Shusei's intention was to portray an active woman who "does not understand the extremely rough human feelings of today." This is beautifully objectified by Shusei's excellent portrayal of women, and it became a masterpiece of naturalism, but Natsume Soseki criticized it for "lacking philosophy."

[Kingo Wada]

"Arakure" (Shincho Bunko) "Hanagai and Akisei by Yoshida Seiichi (Yoshida Seiichi Collected Works 8, 1980, Ohfusha)"

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徳田秋声(しゅうせい)の長編小説。1915年（大正4）1月12日～7月24日『読売新聞』に掲載。同年9月新潮社刊。気性の強いお島は継母とあわず、7歳で養女に出され、18歳で養家から家出し、その翌年後妻に入るが、そこでも「天性の反抗心」で飛び出し、山の温泉宿で女中になってその主人と関係し、東京に戻って洋服商小野田と同棲、男勝りの働きをみせるが亭主に飽き足らず、使用人の若い職人に心を移すという筋(すじ)。「現代の極(ご)く神経の荒っぽい人情を解しない」行動的な女を描くことが秋声の意図だった。それは、秋声の優れた女性描写によってみごとに客観化され、自然主義系の傑作となったが、夏目漱石(そうせき)は「フィロソフィがない」と批判した。

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『『あらくれ』（新潮文庫）』▽『吉田精一著『花袋・秋声』（『吉田精一著作集 8』1980・桜楓社）』

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