@article{oai:teapot.lib.ocha.ac.jp:00039586,
 author = {大林, 恵美 and OBAYASHI, Emi},
 journal = {人間文化創成科学論叢},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {application/pdf, 紀要論文, In many of Maupassant's 'fantastic stories', 'darkness' plays a significant role. In general, darkness or nights are considered to be something that offers us a feeling of relaxation or unrest, but nights in Maupassant give his characters a certain degree of uneasiness. In the latter half of the 19th century, a period of rapid development in science, Maupassant seems in his own stories to have created a different and new kind of 'darkness' responding to the fact that the sciences had become so powerful. 'Darkness' or 'nights' inspire, or disturb, the characters' five senses, and invite them to experience the world of insanity, in which they are no longer able to distinguish sanity from insanity. Those characters are shown to have gone beyond the boundaries of everyday consciousness and of their ordinary senses in their experience of 'darkness' or 'nights'. And as nights never fail to follow days in our everyday life, the characters are doomed to become trapped repeatedly in such 'darkness' or 'nights'. The mental and physical lives of the characters are demonstrated to be submissive to nonhuma\
n forces within and beneath their individual lives, to be wholly changed, or destroyed. The insanity of the characters symbolises their potential self-destructiveness in the science-oriented world.},
 pages = {95--103},
 title = {モーパッサンの幻想的作品における「夜」または「闇」},
 volume = {10},
 year = {2008}
}