京极夏彦《姑获鸟之夏》中的女性形象浅析

An Analysis of the Female Images in Natsuhiko Kyogoku’s The Summer of the Ubume

日本作家京极夏彦于1994年出版了第一本推理小说《姑获鸟之夏》,不仅开启了京极夏彦的作家生涯,更成为了日本推理史上的不朽名著。从《姑获鸟之夏》中所出现的女性角色出发,对女性角色的形象进行具体的分析研究,从而归纳出京极夏彦笔下的女性角色的形象特征:女性一般是妖怪的化身;女性集“恶”与“美”于一身;女性和男性相比,是需要被拯救的人。

In 1994 Japanese writer Natsuhiko Kyogoku published his first mystery novel The Summer of the Ubume,which not only started his career as a writer but also became an immortal masterpiece in the history of Japanese mystery novels.Starting from the female characters appearing in The Summer of the Ubume,this paper conducts a specific analysis and research on the image of female characters,and summarizes the image characteristics of female characters in Natsuhiko Kyogoku’s works:women are generally the incarnation of monsters;women are a combination of“evil”and“beauty”;and,compared to men,women are people who need to be saved.