@article{oai:swu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007039,
 author = {笛木, 美佳 and Fueki, Mika},
 issue = {959},
 journal = {学苑, Gakuen},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {This paper introduces an essay and a lecture related to Shusaku Endo and Showa Women’s University （SWU） in Setagaya, and examines Endo’s views about literary criticism.
　　The essay, “Watakushi no Nikki” （My Diary）, was published in Shincho in February 1964. In it Endo confesses that he writes lies in his diary and mocks the approach of SWU students who collect tips about the authors’ private lives in order to interpret those authors’ works. Endo, at that time, advocated a theory called “Criticism of Metaphysics” which asserts that readers and critics must interpret literary works based only on the works themselves, not on facts or ideas about the authors’ lives. This was sharply opposed to the approach advocated by SWU’s Kindai Bungaku Kenkyu Sosho （The Serial Study of Modern Literature, 77 vols, The Institute of Modern Culture, SWU, 1956-2001）.
　　The lecture, “My Literature and Life,” was delivered to students of SWU on 22 October, 1982.  No record is left of the lecture itself, but a printed description of a student’s impressions allows us to guess what he talked about. In this lecture Endo seems to have mentioned the unreliability of his own diary but also points out that in his work he pursues truth rather than facts. This seems to be a criticism of the above-mentioned ongoing study in　which efforts were made to demonstrate causal relationships between authors’ lives and their works, but at the same time seems to be an encouragement to the students to pursue truth.},
 pages = {(27)--(40)},
 title = {遠藤周作と世田谷（２）―昭和女子大学との関わりから―},
 year = {2020},
 yomi = {フエキ, ミカ}
}