ABSTRACT This article juxtaposes a long Japanese poem (Maruoka Kyūka’s 1886 ‘Rippu ban unkuru’) and an Egyptian play (Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm’s 1933 Ahl al-kahf) to examine representations of cultural belatedness and departures from normative temporalities. In these texts, the protagonists have a supernaturally long night of sleep and come to consciousness in what seems to them, on waking, a different world. The protagonists eventually discover that they are out of sync with the recognized, official timeline; dismayed and alienated, their reactions indicate how drastically the world changed while they slept. Both texts allude to contemporary conditions in modernizing Japan and Egypt – representing the distresses of those who were perhaps unwilling to embrace rapid, irreversible Westernization – and are self-conscious of their formal novelty. Kyūka’s text is a ‘new-style poem’, retelling a story by an American author who was then unknown in Japan; al-Ḥakīm’s play is a philosophical drama of a sort that was unprecedented in Arabic literature. Belatedness is thus represented, in each of these texts, from a vehemently neophilic (and pro-modern) perspective.

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迟到的长眠：丸冈久香的《Rippu ban unkuru》（1886）和陶菲克·阿尔-哈基姆（Tawfīq Al-Ḥakīm）的《Ahl Al-Kahf》（1933）中的非同步性和现代性

摘要 本文将一首日本长诗（Maruoka Kyūka 1886 年的“Rippu ban unkuru”）和埃及戏剧（Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm 1933 年的 Ahl al-kahf）并置，以检验文化迟到和偏离规范时间的表现。在这些文本中，主人公睡了一个超自然的长夜，并在他们醒来时意识到他们似乎是一个不同的世界。主角们最终发现他们与公认的官方时间线不同步；沮丧和疏远，他们的反应表明，当他们睡觉时，世界发生了多么剧烈的变化。这两篇文章都提到了日本和埃及现代化的当代条件——代表了那些可能不愿接受快速、不可逆转的西化的人的痛苦——并且对他们的形式新颖性有自我意识。Kyūka 的文本是一首“新式诗”，复述了一位当时在日本不为人知的美国作家的故事；al-Ḥakīm 的戏剧是阿拉伯文学中前所未有的哲学戏剧。因此，在这些文本中的每一个中，都从强烈的新恋（和亲现代）的角度来表现迟到。