试论川端康成笔下女性的生存徒劳——以《伊豆舞女》的阿薰和《雪国》的驹子和叶子为中心

On the Survival in Vain of Women in Kawabata Yasunari 's Works——Centering on Kaoru from "The Dancing Girl" and Komako with Youko from "The Snowland"

川端康成的不少作品以下层女性作为小说主人公,其中《伊豆的舞女》中的阿薰和《雪国》中的叶子、驹子的形象作为反映日本等级森严的身份制度尤其具有代表性。她们作为舞女或艺妓生活在社会最下层,虽然不断追求人生纯洁和升华之美,但终究摆脱不了宿命给她们带来的生存徒劳。作为小说的主人公,她们的生存本身就是一种徒劳,这样的悲惨命运深刻地抨击了日本等级制度的黑暗。

Kawabata usually sets the women of the lowest stratum as the leading character of his works. And among them, Kaoru from ＂The Dancing Girl＂ of Izu and Komako with Youko from ＂The Snowland＂ are the representatives to reflect the hierarchical identity system in Japan. They are living as dancer or geisha of the lowest level of society. They can not get rid of their doomed endings even if their persistent pursuit of purity and sublimation. As the heroine of the novel, they are living in vain and their miserable fate reflects and denounces the dark Japanese hierarchy.