都市空间中的“厨房”以及蔬菜、瓜果的形而上意义——吉本芭娜娜《厨房》论

《厨房》是日本当代女作家吉本芭娜娜的代表作。本文以作品着墨最多的家庭空间——"厨房"为切入点,重点考察了这一空间作为存在之基的样态及意义。在后工业社会中,展示主体间性的空间日益萎缩,"厨房"成了主人公退守的最后一片田园。本文从这一角度对主人公视线中蔬菜瓜果、花草树木等植物所呈现出的形而上寓意作了分析。伴随着后工业社会的历史进程,"厨房"的主人也出现了新老交替的迹象。作品中另一个人物惠理子身上,即体现了一种新的生存形态。对此,本文也给予了充分的关注和考察。

Kitchen is the masterpiece of Banana Yoshimoto,a Japanese contemporary female writer.This paper takes 'kitchen',the most elaborated domestic space in the novel,as a point of departure and makes a close study of the form and meaning of this space as the basis of existence.In post-industrial society,as the space for inter-subjectivity is ever shrinking,'kitchen' has become the only remaining pastoral dwelling the heroine retreats to.The current study explores the metaphysical meanings of fruits and vegetables,trees and plants from the heroine's standpoint and also gives due consideration to another character Rieko who embodies a new form of existence in the historical process of postindustrial society.