空壳女人的发现与救赎:角田光代小说解读——以畅销书《第八日的蝉》为中心

Discovery and Redemption of Empty-Shell Women: A Reading of Kakuta Mitsuyo's Novels— Centering on her Bestseller The Eighth Day Cicada

2005年直木奖获得者角田光代是日本当代重要的女作家,她的小说塑造了一种被她称为"空壳"人的类型化的人物,即没有固定职业,没有明确目标,外表漠然,内心空虚,抗拒世俗公认的价值观,在社会上缺乏存在感和自我认同。她发现了他们,试图通过他们揭开和谐社会和谐家庭的面纱,展示平静海面下的波涛汹涌,对现行的社会运行模式提出质疑。畅销小说《第八日的蝉》有迎合大众的通俗性,但并未放弃她一贯的对空壳女性的关注,并尝试给予空壳女性前所未有的温暖和救赎的希望。

Kakuta Mitstuyo is one of the most important contemporary Japanese woman writers.（She was awarded Naoki Award for literature in 2005.） Kakuta Mitsuyo has portrayed a type of characters which she refers to as the ＂empty-shell.＂ Without career, these people have no definite goals in their lives; they flatly reject the prevalent values; yet they lack the sense of being and identity. Kakuta discovered these people and attempts to uncover the veils of their harmonious families and society in order to reveal their real lives which are fraught with tensions and conflicts. The contemporary model of social operation is thus brought to question. Her best-seller The Eighth Day Cicada is undeniably pleasing. Yet her concern is still with giving the empty-shell women warmth and the hope of salvation.