Shima Natsuki: Write a distorted person in lonely
March 11, 2021 09:08 Source: "Chinese Social Sciences" March 11, 2021, Issue 2123, author: Wang Yu

Today's Natsuko is the "dark horse" that has emerged in the Japanese literary world in recent years。Her works are not large,But sweeping major literature awards,Get Miyamoto Hui、Kawagawa Yoko and other literary world everyone highly appreciates,And every time a work comes out, it can cause extensive social concern。

She is good at describing a unique post -modern perspective to describe the seemingly daily absurd story,The characters in the pen are mostly "alien",reflect the life of the loneliness and alienation of modern people。This loneliness,It is both the writer's personal experience,It is also the group dilemma of the Japanese today。

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Shima Kamura was born in Hiroshima City in 1980,Leaving parents at the age of 19 to study in Osaka。After graduating from college, I have been around to maintain their livelihoods by zero work,Among them, the longest work is the cleaning of the hotel room。29 years old,The hotel person who is working is rich,There is more and more situations that are not at work in today's village。One day,When the supervisor asked her to go home to rest again,She is caught in a strong self -denial,Think that I am a hating、I amolated、People who are not needed by society。After some ideological struggle,She decided to hide at home to do a job without dealing with people -write novels。Is the year,She completed her debut "New Daughter" (later renamed "Ayumiko here",2011),and won the Dazai Literature Award in one fell swoop with this work。Since then,The collection of novels included in this work has also won the Mika Yaifu Award。

but but,The village after the award is more anxious than joy,She is worried that she cannot create better works and disappoints bet365 live casino games people around,This kind of anxiety makes her worry every day。32 years old,Today Village decided to give up thinking about the creation of novels,Start to find a job again。She took a certificate -related certificate,But after five months of nursing work, I resigned again。After that,She restored the life of zero work everywhere。34 years old,I got married at Muchima。After marriage, she changed her job again,Cleaning of Shinkansen。

According to the memory of the village myself,At that time, she was in a depression that she wanted to resign and could not resign every day。This life has a turning point due to an email from a writer。The email is reposted by Tsukimo Study Room,Mainly for a draft,Among them, "In order to make yourself happy,Please write a novel. "。Encouraged was picked up to create again,"Duck" (2016)、"Father and My Sakuraka Road Store Street" (2016)、"Son of Star" (2017) and other works。2017,"Duck" won the Hebei Hero Story Award,"The Son of Star" won the Field Literary Newcomer Award,and both works are shortlisted for the Akutagawa Award。2019,Today Village finally won the Akutagawa Award with the latest "Woman of the Purple Skirt"。

  "Normal" and "abnormal"

Most of the works in Jincun are short and intensive、Simple structure、Simple style,But her unsatisfactory "zero -degree writing" stroke is full of tension,Details that presented through giant details,Create a disturbing atmosphere and uncertain paradox。For example, "Woman in the Purple Skirt" tells a story that looks like daily but full of absurdity。The novel describes a mysterious woman wearing a purple skirt from the perspective of the first person "I",She always buys a fixed flavor of bread at a fixed shop at a fixed time,Then sit down on her "exclusive bench" in the park and eat slowly。She is often wandering in a nearby shop street like a Lone Ranger,Over time, it becomes bet365 Play online games the "celebrity" of the community,Even circulating "Women who see purple skirts within a day will go to good luck twice,I will be unlucky when I see it three times "。Compared with,"I" who claim to be a "yellow cardigan" are a person with no sense of presence。"I" really want to make friends with "Woman of the Purple Skirt",But I don’t know how to speak,So follow her every day to find opportunities。"I" found that if she can become a colleague with her,You can meet her logically,So I tried my best to make a mark on the recruitment magazine,Put it on her fixed seat in the park,Guide it to interview。"I" believes that "the woman with a purple skirt" is not refreshing enough、The image will affect its interview success rate,Secretly put the shampoo on the door handle of her house ... During the reading process,Readers will gradually notice the incorrectness of the narrator "I "-" I "'s behaviors like "tracking voyeur"。"I", the more granted to make a reasonable explanation for your behavior,The more the readers are doubt about everything described by "I"。This narrative technique can be said to be a major highlight of today's village novels: the characters of the narrator are completely unreliable,or a weird temperament,or lack of morality and common sense,And the describer himself has no self -knowledge about this。Under this narrative framework,Readers cannot correctly、Learn from the novel character information,It is impossible to understand the author's original intention through some vague expressions。This kind of uncertain reading experience allows the text to have a versatile space,Also allows characters and plots to have special aesthetic fun。

The second half of the novel,"I" "abnormal" gradually became obvious,Instead, "Woman in the Purple Skirt" becomes like an ordinary person。She successfully entered the hotel where I was located to become a guest room cleaning,bet365 best casino games and adapt quickly,Leaders and colleagues appreciate her and add。After a few months,"Women of Purple Skirts" have been the same as old employees,Skilledly mastered the lazy and slippery method at work。Not only that,She also visible to his eyes to look healthy,After makeup and the sluggish appearance, two people,I even started an extramarital affair with the leader。In short,"Woman in the Purple Skirt" has become a "ordinary person" in a secular sense。On the contrary, "I",Obviously becoming a colleague with it,But still peep at her life from a distance every day。At the end of the novel,"Woman in the Purple Skirt" was caught in a huge crisis due to an accident,Mastering all the secrets of its secrets finally talked to her for the first time。"I" encouraged "Woman of the Purple Skirt" to escape,and provide her with the items needed to escape,Also pointed out the escape route for her。"Woman in the Purple Skirt" after disappearing,"I" sitting lightly on the gnang of the woman in the park,Eat the other favorite bread。The novel stops abruptly here。

Critic Yano Liyu believes,The author cleverly uses the "ring structure" to create a reversal,"Woman of the Purple Skirt" at the beginning of the bad image comes from the prejudice that "I" instilled to the reader,In fact, in other characters in the novel,"I" is the most abnormal person。The direction of the story is full of suspense,Open ending is sighing,Why do you have such behavior for "I",Novels have not explained from beginning to end。

This work continues the style of "Thinking Thinking" in the village novel。such as,"This is Yamiko", Rakiko, Rakiko, is getting better in the mother who lost her baby who was born,I actually made a tombstone for the dead baby,Also call mom to see。Mom is deeply hit,From then on, I have been in weak,And Yamiko just strange why his efforts could not work。The lonely old couple in "Duck" raised bet365 live casino games a cute duck,Children nearby always come to see ducks,The old couple is particularly happy。In order to keep the children who came to see the ducks,The old couple kept secretly changing new ducks after the duck was sick。"The Son of Star" combines the warmth of the family with the religious brainwashing behavior,suffocating。This kind of terrifying atmosphere makes people can't help but think of Ogawa Odako's early work。such as,"Calendar of pregnancy" (1990) Sister who cares for pregnancy,But deliberately let my sister eat the jam containing strong carcinogens,I also look forward to seeing the baby’s baby who is hurt by the carcinogen。The malicious maliciousness that appears in daily life is also shuddering for readers。But Ogawa focuses more on the darkness and cruelty of human nature,This is very different from the novel in Mi Village。"Woman in the yellow cardigan" in today's pens, although the behavior is weird,But she is more like a distorted person。She believes that "the woman in the purple skirt" is the same as herself,So I try to get close to her,In the end, I found that "the woman in the purple skirt" is just a virtual image under her wishful thinking,The only one who is really lonely is just the one。The same is true of Yamiko in "Ayaki here",She lacks empathy、Lack of common sense,The disaster of breaking makes people feel angry and hateful,But she didn't know what she did would hurt others,Even her parents respect her far away。Today Village likes to use some "aliens" as the protagonist of the novel,Some readers commented that her works are different from Murata Sayaka's "Earth Convenience Store" (2016).。But "Earth Convenience Store" finally discussed social rules、Topics of Volkswagen Values,This is not the focus of writing in today's village。

  Paradoxes to get out of loneliness and insist on self

I said at the reporter's meeting after winning Bet365 lotto review the Akutaga Award in Murakami,I am not good at communicating with people since I was a child,There is no friend now。In the essay "So far" (2019),more admitted that I had "eating disorders" during college,Eating with people is a painful thing for her at that time,Therefore, she always hides alone at home,Become the "Live Labor" in the world's population。But such a bad social village is looking forward to "friends",She wrote: "From the date of winning the prize,It has passed for a week。What is frightening is,There is no change in life compared to the past,I still live a dull life every day。I once heard that I would become more after I won the Akutagawa Award,Now it seems that such beautiful things will not happen to me。Although I feel a little lonely,But I found that I can continue to live the same usual life in the future,In fact, I feel at ease。"Today Village wants to get out of loneliness,But I am more afraid of losing self。She observes、Through the loneliness and confusion of people similar to those who are similar,Express the feelings of real life with a narrative method with "individualism"。But her narrative is obviously different from the traditional "private novel" type of personal confession,Abstract、The conceptual style of conceptual makes her work more powerful for critical social reality。

Modern society operates under the established social rules,People are always wrapped uncontrollably、Disted by alienation,Persist in self or go with the big current,This is the choice faced by many people。Self -persistence will inevitably bring alienation、The exclusive loneliness,Convergence of psychological root exists in human subconscious。Most people are afraid of loneliness,So I always do something that is not really desperate in my heart,To seek the "normal" on the surface。This human alienation deepen the opposition of the individual,Bet365 app download Make the relationship between people and people more alienated。Facing the state of the comprehensive alienation of modern people,"Lonely" becomes the most important emotional experience of "alien" that insists on self。The "heterogeneous" characters in today's Village Pens show such loneliness,This may be the significance and value of the existence of the character in the literary works。

  (Author is an associate professor at the School of Foreign Language and Culture, South China Normal University)

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