村上春树与吉本芭娜娜文学中的睡眠书写——以《天黑以后》和《白河夜船》为例

The Writing of Sleep in the Literature of Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto--Take After Dark and Asleep as Examples

睡眠,从生理层面来看是人类恢复精力的方式,而从文学层面来看,则被作为人类精神世界的表征。村上春树的《天黑以后》和吉本芭娜娜的《白河夜船》都有对主人公的睡眠的描写。在这两部小说中,睡眠都被作为与现实相隔绝的空间,被视为一种逃避现实的手段。睡眠以及伴随睡眠的梦境,在某种程度上也被看作超现实意义上的相互交流的手段。同时,睡眠空间作为一种与外界隔绝的封闭空间,也呈现出一种闭塞感与孤独感。而这些,都是与当代日本高度发达的都市社会以及都市中人们的孤独、封闭的精神状态紧密相关的。

From a physiological perspective,sleep is a way for humans to restore energy,while from a literary perspective,it is used as a representation of the human spiritual world.Both Haruki Murakami’s After Dark and Banana Yoshimoto’s Asleep describe the protagonist’s sleep.In these two novels,sleep is regarded as a space isolated from reality and a means of escaping from reality.Sleep and the dreams that accompany sleep are also regarded as surreal means of communication.At the same time,as a closed space isolated from the outside world,sleep space also presents a sense of occlusion and loneliness.These are closely related to the highly developed urban society of contemporary Japan,as well as the lonely and closed mental state of people in the city.