Uma Leitura Erótica de Sôseki

Abstract

To think on an interpretation of Sôseki’s novels that explores erotic aspects would seem, in a first glance, a nonsense, as there are no real assurances that such revelations were clearly expressed, unlike what has happened in Mori Ôgai’s writings (especially in Vita sexualis). As a matter of fact, Meiji period new social order has overshadowed the open ways of passion relationships that had been since then luxuriously cultivated, be it in the irogonomi concept of Heian period (794-1192), be it in its parodic return as kôshoku in Edo period (1603-1878). The domestication angst of love relations based upon an enforced monogamy is at the core of some Sôseki’s novel protagonists, and is about them that we are aiming to reflect upon in this essay