镜中观三人 双影鉴一身——评有岛武郎笔下的叶子其人

Three Persons in One Mirror,Two Personalities of One Woman——On “Youko”,the Heroine of A Woman by Takeo Arishima

在有岛武郎的名作《一个女人》中,女主人公叶子被描写成一个叛逆、脱离社会规范的"新女性",但又不同于当时真正活跃于社会上的职业女性。在她最终走向毁灭的过程中,其自身纯真与贪欲的双重性格在作为其分身而存在的两个妹妹———贞世和爱子身上得以再现。可以说两个妹妹在叶子生命的轨迹中起着不可忽视的镜子般的反照作用。

In Takeo Arishima's masterpiece A Woman,Youko,the heroine is depicted as a new type of female——rebellious,free from social conventions,but different from the career woman. In the course of her approaching final destruction her purity and greed are embodied respectively in her two younger sisters Sadayo and Aiko,who function as a mirror,reflecting Youko's whole life.