大江健三郎《水死》的虚构与真实

Fiction and Reality in Death by Water by Kenzaburō ōe

《水死》是大江健三郎在2009年出版的长篇小说。《水死》既充满虚构的想象力,又饱含着对真实性的追求。在表达方法上,大江借助神话传说、"附体"的概念来展现想象力;通过重读、增设女性视角等方法来追求真实性。步入晚年的大江在此作品中将虚构和真实融合,在想象与事实之间,探索历史的真相,思考自我的身份。通过《水死》,大江在寻找作为一个小说家一生的轨迹。

Kenzaburo Oe＇s novel Death by Water was published in 2009. Death by Water is full of imagination as well as reality. As to the writing method, Oe shows his imagination in tales and with the idea of ＂possession＂. At the same time, he seeks reality by re-reading and adding a female view. In his old age, Oe mixes fiction and reality in the novel, and searches for the fact of the history between fiction and reality, as well as thinking of his own identity. Through Death by Water, Oe is searching for a path throughout his entire life as a novelist.