摆脱阴影,走向新生——从大江健三郎获奖作品看其重塑日本民族性格的尝试

On Kenzaburo Oe's Attempt to Reshape the Japanese National Character from his Novels

从小说《人个体验》到《万延元年的足球队》,大江健三郎对战后日本民族问题进行了深刻的反思。二战的失败特别是原子弹对广岛、长崎的毁灭性打击,给了日本民族当头一棒,使得日本普通民众心头蒙上了一层阴影,同时还使得日本民族性格发生了扭曲。《人个的体验》反映了日本民族对战争失败和核爆炸痛苦的接受过程;《万延元年的足球队》则提出了如何摆脱穷兵黩武的民族性格,提炼出一种全新的健康民族性格的思考。

From his novels Personal Experience to The Football Team of the First Year of M anen ,Kenzaburo Oe has carried on a profound reflection about Japanese postw ar national problems .The failure in the Second World War and especially the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ,cast a shadow over Japanese people’s spirit ,and made a distortion to Japanese national character .Personal Experience reflects the painful process for Japanese to accept the failure of the war and the nuclear blast ,while The Football Team of the First Year of Manen has put forward a thinking how Japanese get rid of the national character of militarism ,and tried to create a healthy national character .