"Chunqin Copy": Behind the popular Japanese drama stands a master of pure literary aesthetics

Recommended reading: Harumi (Japan) Junichiro Tanizaki

Miss Rich Chunqin is a beautiful blind man with exquisite piano skills and a very bad temper. Sasuke, a servant who specializes in taking care of her daily life, also follows her to learn the piano, single-mindedly. Haruka's family changed, and sasuke and his servant lived outside, teaching people to play the piano for a living. The loser who was rejected for the beauty of Chunqin, retaliated against Chunqin for disfiguring her. She was no longer beautiful, deeply afraid of Sasuke's face when she saw her unwrapped the gauze. So the day before Sasuke unwrapped the gauze, for Haruko's self-esteem, Sasuke stabbed himself blind and worked together to survive the dark life.

After going blind, Sasuke and Haruka are even more inconvenient to do anything, but the two seem to enjoy the trouble, exchanging delicate love in silence. Perhaps he knew that love in this world was too beautiful, too pure, and anything worldly could almost be called an obstacle to love, status, identity, rich and poor, and body, but Sasuke chose to use his strong willpower for love to overcome them one by one. Even self-harm.

Typical Japanese novel. Pursue the ultimate. They can pay the price of their lives for absolute love and beauty, such as suicide staying at the age of 17 forever. This is strongly celebrated in Japanese literature. Even haruki Murakami's novels, which are influenced by the West, have a similar aesthetic. The cherry blossoms are short-lived and are praised in the form of gods. It is also a metaphor for the subconscious of the island's inhabitants to keep the beauty of death forever. In love, for the love current in his heart still exists, it is not surprising that he chooses to blind his own eyes.

Because in this novel, the heroine expresses love very roughly due to her own reasons, but the male protagonist who understands her repeatedly tolerates and is willing to eat. Frankly, some people feel that this feeling is too distorted, perverted, and not without reason. But after all, the novel is a novel, a spiritual amber art, is a testing ground for human nature, some novelists use the ultimate way to express certain aspects of human nature, but also have a sense of artistic appreciation.

In my opinion, it is quite shallow to criticize the stupidity of self-harm, or to celebrate the greatness of self-harm. What's really shocking is that love requires effort. Human nature changes, and if they want to make love permanent, the Japanese think of self-harm in exchange for short-lived but absolute permanence. Or, a high level of love is not the love of ordinary men and women, but the deep affection of mutual dependence, mutual attachment, and a mixture of multiple emotions.

The reason why I think of reading Junichiro Tanizaki is because of the popular Japanese drama "Sage Love" some time ago. In my opinion, the real value of this TV series, which has been scolded by some people and analyzed with relish, is that it broadens the boundaries of the performance theme of the TV series. Watching a TV series does not require recognition of the choice of the protagonist of the story, but watching a TV series can also make people think about life in passing, which is indeed a relatively rare thing. Anyway, at least it's worth a 15-minute watch than the boring soap opera of the chicken and garlic mother-in-law war. Yes, 15 minutes is enough. Andy Warhol says everyone has 15 minutes to become a celebrity. For a TV series, it takes 15 minutes to roughly feel its temperament and style.

The revenge plan of the heroine of "Sage Love" is due to the revenge plan of Maiko, who has loved Junichiro Tanizaki's "Foolish Love" since she was a child. This novel is still about the cultivation of love. It is consistent with the spiritual temperament of this Japanese drama TV series. I'm going to talk about another novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, Harukami.

Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) was recognized in Japan as a master of aesthetic literature. The fame of "Chunqin Copy" is roughly equivalent to Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country", which is my impression, not necessarily accurate. But I once saw in a very old film pictorial that there was a Yue opera movie that was also adapted from this novel. Many people have commented that he is the most accomplished and influential writer of the Japanese aestheticist genre, and in his writing, he combines the Western aesthetic ideas he has received with the delicate beauty of Japanese culture. However, some people always like to mention that Tanizaki Junichiro's early works pursue the pleasure of experiencing pain from sadism and masochism, and showing the beauty of women in the cruelty of the flesh, so they are called "demonists".

Because the Nobel Prize selection adheres to a strict confidentiality system, it will take 50 years for the selection file to be declassified and made public. In 2014, Japanese media reported that in the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, four Japanese writers were nominated, of which novelist Junichiro Tanizaki entered the final selection and became one of the final six candidates. That is, it has reached a place within reach of the Nobel Prize in Literature. However, one member of the judging committee believed that although Tanizaki's work was a combination of aesthetics and sensibility, it also expressed the opinion that "his writing skills are not the highest representative" and "the sadistic ideas in his works are difficult for Western readers to accept". Eventually, the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, but refused to accept it because he "refused all official honors."

West China Metropolis Daily reporter Zhang Jie