一日本作家自杀是一种文化现象翻开日本近现代文学史,我们可以发现这样一种令人纳闷的现象:不断有才气横溢的日本作家自杀身亡。从明治、大正时代直至今日,就有北村透谷、有岛武郎、芥川龙之介、牧野信一、太宰治、田中光英、三岛由纪夫、川端康成等名作家采取自杀的手段结束了自己的生命。在寻找日本作家自杀原因这一问题上,中日两国学者的方法、观点多有不同之处。以前,我们中国的日本文学研究者们,由于各种主客观的原因,总是从社会、政治、经济的角度去探讨日本作家为什么自杀。这固然能说明一些问题,但是今天看来似乎有欠全面,问题也远非那么简单。 A Japanese Writer Suicide is a Cultural Phenomenon Turning the history of modern Japanese literature, we can find such a perplexing phenomenon: the continuous talented Japanese writer committed suicide. From the Meiji era and the Taisho era to this day, we ended ourselves with the methods of suicide by writers such as Kitamura Touzu, Takeujima Takeuchi, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Makino Shinichi, Dazai Zhi, Tanaka Kouying, Mishima Yukio and Kawabata Yasunari s life. There are many differences in the methods and opinions of scholars in China and Japan in the search for the cause of suicide of Japanese writers. In the past, researchers of Japanese literature in China, for a variety of subjective and objective reasons, always explored why Japanese writers committed suicide from a social, political, and economic point of view. Although this can explain some problems, it seems less complete today and the problems are far from simple.