《时间》:堀田善卫对南京大屠杀的解读及对中日关系的思考

Jikan: Yoshie Hotta's Reflections on Nanjing Massacre and China-Japan Relations

1953年开始发表的《时间》,是日本战后派代表作家堀田善卫直接描写南京大屠杀的长篇小说,这是日本文学史上第一部、恐怕也是日本同类题材中唯一的一部长篇作品。文章以此为文本,着重分析经历了战争一代的日本知识人对于以南京大屠杀为重要场景的近代日本侵华战争和中日关系的认识。原本几乎与中国无缘的堀田,战争结束前后将近两年的上海经历,促使他对中日关系开始了痛苦而深刻的思考。《时间》便是他这一系列思考的集大成之作。这部作品,高度凝聚了这一代有良知的日本知识分子对于过去的战争、中日关系和东亚命运的沉痛的认识。

The novel Jikan, published in 1953 by Yoshie Hotta who is a representative of Japanese postwar writer, is the first and probably the only full-length direct description of the Nanjing Massacre in Japanese literature. This paper attempts to use this text to explore how Japanese intellectuals of the war generation understand the modern Japanese War of Aggression against China with the Nanjing Massacre as a typical scene and the overall China-Japan relations. Originally Yoshie Hotta had no relations with China. The nearly two-year experience in Shanghai after the war, however, led him to painful but profound thoughts on China-Japan relations. Jikan was precisely a magnum opus of these thoughts, which highly condensed the heavy reflections of this generation＇s intellectuals of conscience on the past war, the China-Japan relations and the destiny of East Asia.