Generally speaking, Japanese traditional literature is mainly based on truth, sadness, beauty and silence, while modern Japan has elements such as strangeness, suspense reasoning and pure love. It makes Japanese novels "various" and can be chosen at will. Here, no matter how Japanese novels develop, they are inseparable from the true portrayal of life. Here, we have to introduce the latest masterpiece "Snow Marsh" by Japanese writer Horie Minzhi, who pursues the true and random writing of life. He inherited the "real" style of Japanese literature.
Toshiyuki is an award-winning professional. He has won Akutagawa Prize, Yomiuri Shimbun Award, Mishima Yukio Award, Tanizaki Junichiro Award, Kawabata Yasunari Literature Award and Wilderness Literature Award. He is also known as the "king writer of pure literature" in Japan. If you think a writer should not only look at honor, then let's take a quick look at his works.
Snow Marsh is a collection of short stories, including the author's seven representative works. They are stations, nettles fields, valley terraces, sending spiritual fire, laying bricks, piranhas and gentle slopes. What is a snow marsh? Snow Marsh is a fictional Japanese mountain city, such as Panther's Wa Kanda, Marvel Comics and DC Gotham Batman, which are all overhead. The fictional mountain city created by the author has pinned many authors' good wishes for Japan's development and is also a true portrayal of Japanese civilian life. The product of this creativity runs through the book and is a frequent milestone.
Among them, due to the guarding of Gong Enshan, the famous Sichuan flows quietly. There is also a ski resort with very high exposure on the northern slope of the snowy swamp, which has appeared in the nettle yard, sending spiritual fire, bricklaying and gentle slope respectively. Among them, the interesting connection is that the classroom where Daisy used to learn cooking in "Sending the Fire to God" is actually the cooking class opened by the teacher Liu Branch in "Nettle House". In such a small universe, it shows how civilians live a real life in this small place. It turns out that the money-oriented oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea is also the real life of Japanese civilians, but the author originated from life, and it is also higher than the casual writing of life. Starting from the hobby of each protagonist, every protagonist lives a dull and interesting life in this snowy area.
Among them, the article "Standing Point" tells the story of a couple who went to a bowling alley to borrow the bathroom on their way to visit their friends. This story is a hobby of the protagonist, and it reflects the touching side of the author everywhere. For example, the hero was fascinated by the heavy and warm impact of bowling. This soft shock makes many people like this sport, at least the hero does. In addition, this paper also introduces bowling and its occupation through the promotion of the plot, so that readers can learn the knowledge of drinking more dry goods while reading interesting stories.
In Nettle House, on the one hand, the author wrote about a teacher's kindness in adopting orphans. Of course, the author still likes to use "sexy words" to write about the teacher's hobby, that is, no matter whether he makes nettle soup, coffee or thick soup, he will only choose rock sugar because it is stable, delicious and practical. For example, the author also explained that the teacher took the train through the tunnel to prevent earplugs.
In "Valley Terrace", it is written that the protagonist Tanabe likes to smoke Hi-lite cigarettes, which were very popular at that time. Tanabe is a worker in a carton factory and is conscientious in his post. For example, the author wrote that if he asked for an early delivery, he would overcome all difficulties to deliver the goods in the morning, rain or shine. This is naturally the author's considerate vision to present the real daily life of the working people and their helplessness to fate. For example, the author wrote about Tanabe elder Qingdao, who worked in the factory until he was old. Among them, the author is good at presenting the image of Qingdao in pictures with meticulous descriptions, such as "Qingdao's arm has turned into a thin black wire, which seems to break when folded" and "Snow-white hair is scattered on the ground, like a soft fish white". These vivid and peculiar languages reflect the author's solid and brilliant writing skills, and also fully reflect the sense of being old from Qingdao, so the tone of this novel has a dull sense of being old. In addition, since it is a carton factory industry, we can get a glimpse of the production knowledge there through this article.
This is a very sad novel. This is the home of a pair of teachers. Teacher Yang Ping's family likes to keep dogs, but his wife doesn't know that dogs are eager to swim. This naturally prevented his wife's dog from dying in unnamed Sichuan, but it is true that his wife's son drowned in unnamed Sichuan because of the flood. Such a delicate plot makes us lament the fragility and impermanence of life. In Sadness, the author also added a lot of warm feelings to his writing, such as writing about teacher Yang Ping and his wife's son A Youai's bicycle, the novel also wrote an interesting story about disassembling the bicycle, and made a ceremony with the love of the deceased for the bicycle. This brings a little warm comfort to the couple, and also popularizes the disassembly and cultural presentation of bicycles, which is also worth reading carefully by readers.
Bricklaying is the story of Rooting, a senior employee of Xuenuma Record Store. Based on his love of music, Roots loves to change careers, and he is very professional and persistent. The author transformed the record store with roots and built a red brick platform, which can make the sound of the record more stereoscopic. In addition, the ceiling of the old longhouse building can make the sound of records reverberate, which is a very professional music content. Among them, the author also described the location of the shop, which fully reflected the author's love for music, tea and clogs. Otherwise, it wouldn't be said that these three stores are juxtaposed. It is also written here that the snow marsh is the secret that the author yearns for. Lotus root's pursuit and contribution to music and record stores is not only to lay red bricks, but also to change the playback equipment in the store and make the business better. In addition, it is also written here that the knowledge of record speakers is also very beneficial, especially for music lovers. In addition, the author also explained that Lian Gen was despised by him since he was a child, and now he has become an excellent music interior designer in the store. Naturally, he will praise everyone who can have expertise. This is a warm and intimate novel at room temperature.
In the article Piranha, I wrote about An Tian, a takeaway brother in a restaurant. Although he is stupid, he is diligent. He eventually became the owner of a restaurant through loan financing, married a beautiful woman and raised angelfish in the store. This is a very inspirational story. Of course, this is a bit like the story of Ashin, which also introduces the cooking skills of restaurants, such as cooking noodles. But the author comes from inspirational, but higher than inspirational. Because the author also wrote that An Tian's hobby is to raise piranha "angel fish". The author is good at capturing some fleeting emotions. For example, he wrote that An Tian thought that every time he cooked noodles as a customer, he always made noodles stick to his clothes. Naturally, he gave the noodles to the angelfish, but strangely, the hero of the inspirational version also has a confusing and even interesting side, that is, he unconsciously fattened the fish because he gave the fish more noodles, and An Tian didn't know the fact that the fish was fattened. So you ask him if An Tian raises fish to attract people. In addition, the author also wrote about Japanese Shui culture, so we can also increase our knowledge.
The last article is "Gentle Slope", which is actually about the protagonist's fire extinguisher salesman meeting and enjoying flying kites. Here, the author also reveals the working attitude of Japanese workplace at that time, which is a kind of financial muddling along, not good. I also wrote that I have a hobby of flying kites even if I enter the work, which is an important manifestation that the Japanese understand life very well. Here, the author continues to use his delicate eyes to shape a character's character from trivial daily life. For example, it is introduced here that Hunan and Guangdong like to watch flying objects in the air since childhood, and naturally developed into a hobby of flying kites. And this novel is also very exquisite. The author links fire extinguishers, gentle slopes and kites, which shows that flying kites is also a very scientific way. This also gives readers a glimpse of the author's ingenious novel ideas.
From the bowling alley and bowling alley in Station Point, the orphanage and crystal sugar in Nettle Yard, to the carton factory and Hi-lite cigarettes in Valley Terrace, teachers and bicycles in Linghuo were sent, record stores in bricklaying and red bricks were designed, restaurants and angelfish in piranhas were designed, and finally, fire extinguishers and kites were made in gentle slopes. It all reflects how people from all walks of life survive and live in their respective posts in the secret environment of snow marsh.
However, the author needs fleeting details to create characters and plots, so as to express an ideal Japanese lifestyle that pursues self-entertainment. It is worth noting that the author likes to use some things to communicate with people, such as old bowling alleys, cooking classrooms, small record stores and carton factories, bicycles, kites, etc., which are all old things with a sense of the times. These old objects, in the author's clever pen, act on people, highlighting a feeling of old things. Snow marsh is the author's beautiful vision, and people want to live a strong and interesting life with nature.
The author inherits the long tradition of Japanese "private novels" and realistic novels. He is good at grasping some fleeting emotions in human nature and appreciating the taste of life from trivial daily life. He writes novels so casually and truly. For example, in this book, we can see that the author's novel style has no ups and downs, no intrigue, no reversal, no bizarre twists and turns, and no horrible and bloody stories. His writing charm is to truly restore the Japanese life itself, and also to pin hope on a better life.
In this snowy world, people live a plain and real life, and we naturally like such solid and delicate writing charm. In this snowy world, the author pursues a kind of casual writing, with an unpretentious style. This, Horie Toshiyuki has already done.