论日本两代诺贝尔文学奖得主的女性观——以川端康成《生为女人》和大江健三郎《人生的亲戚》为例

Yasunari Kawabata's and Kenzaburo Oe's Views of Females Based on To Be a Woman and The Silent Cry

川端康成与大江健三郎是日本获得诺贝尔奖的两位优秀男性作家。《生为女人》与《人生的亲戚》是两位作家以女性为主人公的作品,前者以清新的笔调充分展现日本女性的美丽、温柔、坚毅,而后者则以犀利的风格将日本女性的勇敢、坚强以及历经磨难后的生生不息展现在读者面前。两者的女性观不尽相同,川端的女性观是对日本传统文学中的女性观的继承,大江则是对西方文学中的女性观的受容。这体现了随着时代的变迁,对女性美的审美认知发生的变化。

Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe are two Japanese male writers who both won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Their representative works,To Be a Woman and The Silent Cry,both portray women as the leading characters.Yasunari Kawabata characterizes his heroines as beautiful women of softness and fortitude,while Kenzaburo Oe unfolds the courageous,strong and resilient personalities of Japanese females in hardship.Kawabata has inherited the view of females from traditional Japanese literature,while Oe has embraced elements of the western views of women.Their disparities reflect the changes of aesthetic cognition of female beauty with the change of times.