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Peep The Line Between Life,

Posted on:2003-10-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y M ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360062485913Subject:Japanese Language and Literature
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Following Tagore, Kawabatayasunali was the second oriental writer awarded Nobel prize, the value of whose writings is never suspected. However, different from many other writers, lots of descriptions always run through his writings of the literature. The aim of the paper is to understand the special viewpoint of his literature by means of searching for the original source of subjects about death.Generally, see his whole process of his writing, although the development of his writing style, his paving attention to the meaning of death never changed. Lacking of experience of his personal life, he influence of Buddhist scripture and classical literatures, and the trauma of the war, those personal experience and the history background form his special understanding of death and are the original resource of the writings about death.These death-describing works characterize the Kawabatayasunali literature. But what we can see from it is not only a sad tune, but also the praise song of life that the writer has deduced for a lifetime, which is specifically shown in the adoration of virgins and mother-loved feelings and desire for love. The individual experiences, the accumulation of culture and the social changes enable him, in the small room, to break up the boundary between life and death. The writer doesn't look on death as the final point, but as the beginning, in order to deny death, you'll have to consent to it first, and recognize life from it, and think reversely. Kawabatayasunali Literature can be said to depict "from death to life". The description of "death" is not to deny lives, but to hold a cherished attitude towards lives. From the angel of aesthetics, beauty is derived from sadness, and they are interconnected. The later works of the writer try to pursue beautiful lives in death, even in dream and in illusion, and shuttling back and forth between the devil and Buddha field to pursue the artistic truth, kindness and beauty, and inquire into a more advanced level.Breaking up the protective screen between life and death, taking the looking-on-death-as-life persistent pursuance as the core, giving a helping and consoling hand to the human beings who shiver in front of death and feel the pressure of living, and building a golden bridge between the past, present and future, this religions wish forms the base of Kawabatayasunali literature and is a kind of pure mentalist beauty. This kind of aesthetic perspective from the individual experiences that performs, in death, the praise song of lives, is not foreign but native. By the Japanese aesthetic view, life and death are the two interconnected phases in the process of changes. Death is not the eternal tranquility, but walks to the circling life. The writer fixes his "dying eyes" on the illusionary world. What left for the readers is the endless enlightenment. He becomes the descendant and ancestor of the traditional beauty.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kawabatayasunali, "death
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