After reading "Snow Country", I know that a flower planted on _____
Author: Red Sea Shell
A flower planted on ______
The answer is not:
(There is an answer at the end of the article)
After reading "Snow Country" with an incomparably complicated mood, while reading, the sentence in Zhang Ailing's "Red Rose and White Rose" came to mind: There are two women in Zhenbao's life. He said one was his white rose and one was his red rose. ...... Maybe every man has had two women like this, at least two. Married to a red rose, over time, the red became a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, the white is still "the bright moonlight in front of the bed"; married to the white rose, the white is a sticky grain of rice on the clothes, but the red is a cinnabar mole on the heart.
It is difficult to understand a country that allows geisha to exist, and it is difficult to understand the scene of celebrity gentlemen falling in love with geisha in a country where geisha is legalized; it is even more difficult to understand that a man with a wife and children in his family, who looks like a good man, likes a geisha and looks forward to a country girl.
Snow Country is the most complex and incomprehensible novel I've ever read.
"Snow Country" is the highest masterpiece of Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, and was one of the three novels mentioned by the jury when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Of all Kawabata's works, Snow Country is the most translated overseas.
"Snow Country" tells the story of a dance art researcher named Shimamura in Tokyo who travels to the Snow Country Hot Spring Inn three times. Three travel experiences have led to an emotional entanglement between Shimamura and a geisha named Komako in Snow Country and a leaf who meets on the train.
Shimamura is a middle-aged man in Tokyo with a wife and children who lives on the legacy of his ancestors. He spends his days doing nothing, but enjoys studying and commenting on Western dances through photographs and textual materials.
When he first came to the hot spring inn in Snow Country, he met the local geisha Komako, who was deeply attracted by the beautiful face and simple thoughts of the koma. He even felt that "every toe bend of the koma was very clean", and because he could not let go of the colt in his heart, he came to the snow country twice to meet the koma.
When Shimamura came to snow for the second time, Komako's son, Yukio, the son of Komako's master, contracted tuberculosis. The second female protagonist, Ye Zi, accompanied the walking man to Tokyo to see a doctor, and when she returned by train from Tokyo, she happened to be sitting opposite the shimamura where she wanted to meet Komako in the snow country.
Shimamura admires the snow at sunset through the car window, but inadvertently sees the leaves reflected on the car window. The beautiful leaves are like pear blossoms after the rain, and they are so clean that it is heart-wrenching. Shimamura tried his best to hide that his amorous personality was still naked, and he deeply liked this beautiful girl in his heart. Thus, a delicate emotional relationship is formed between Shimamura, Komako, and Leaf.
If you think it's just a love triangle story, you're wrong. The reality of the plot is that Komako likes Shimamura, Shimamura likes Leaves, Leaves likes Okino, and Okono likes Komako. In the story of "Snow Country", everyone has something to love in their hearts, and everyone loves but can't.
The man who liked the colt died because of the ineffective treatment of tuberculosis, and begged to see the colt when he died, but he did not succeed. He likes the leaves of the walking man and goes to the grave of the walking man every day, but he wants to go to Tokyo with Shimamura to live. Komako, who loves Shimamura, not only ignores the love of Yukio, but also ignores the existence of her husband, envisions life in Tokyo, and dreams by writing a diary, but in the end, due to the unexpected death of Leaf, she stays in the snow country and lives a self-sufficient life.
The married dancer Shimamura in the story is even more complicated. The first time I liked the colt, I came to the snow country three times to see the colt, but the second time I came to the snow country, I liked the leaves in my heart. One moment I dream of seeing a colt, and for a moment I have leaves in my heart that I can't hold back; when I don't see a colt, I miss it; and when I see a colt, I feel sorry for the leaves in my heart. When you don't come to the snow country, Komako's face always appears in front of Shimamura's eyes, and when you come to Snow Country, you see the beautiful eyes of the leaves, and you feel that Komako's face is like an old mask. After all the beauty has come to an end, everything has become futile, everything is nothing.
"Snow Country" is the first novella created by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, and it is also a representative work of his aestheticism. From 1935 onwards, he published in magazines in the form of short stories under the titles of "Mirror of Twilight" and "Mirror of Daylight", which had no closely related plots to each other, until all these short stories were written and Yasunari Kawabata was carefully revised, and then published a single book in 1948 under the name of "Snow Country".
The beauty of nothingness, cleanliness and sorrow depicted in Snow Country reaches its extreme. It makes the reader feel thrilled and sad. The beautiful imagery in "Snow Country" is integrated into the emotions of the characters, with a faint mourning. These descriptions fully embody Yasunari Kawabata's idea of material mourning.
After reading "Snow Country", I suddenly felt the sadness of all things in the world, no matter how beautiful things, no matter how beautiful people, no matter how beautiful the scenery, they will eventually die. The beauty of the beautiful snow country, the beautiful geisha colt, the beautiful maiden leaves, in that extremely poor snow country, like the snow of spring, slowly melt until it disappears.
In the story of "Snow Country", at first, there is no morality and ethics. Or rather, we can't understand the relationship between geisha and travelers in the country where geisha is legalized.
Under each beautiful face, there is its own calculation. The simple-minded Komako, rather than liking Tokyo's Shimamura, likes Tokyo life; likes the leaves of the walking man, not so much obsessed with it, but rather wants to follow Shimamura to Tokyo; the komako's walking man, rather than having a deep love and begging to see Komako when he dies, is more like preserving a man's self-esteem, "I can bear you, but you can't bear me"; of course, the least moral sense is Shimamura, home, outside, in the pot, in the bowl, red flag, bunting. Many entanglements eventually became the futility of his mouth, and finally became a nothingness.
With the unexpected death of Leaf, "Snow Country" retains a trace of morality for the reader. In order to save the people in the fire, the leaf was physically weak, fell from the upper floor, and fell to his death in the fire. Her morality may have touched the colt, but also made the colt bear a deep self-blame. In this self-blame, Komako chose to be an ordinary, self-reliant woman. Everything is back to the starting point, a society that creates wealth by hand, a society with a sense of morality, is a normal society.
At the beginning of the whole novel, the beauty of the eyes of the leaves, the beauty of the dusk outside the train window, and the overlapping wildfires of the stars, these overlapping fires dotted the beautiful eyes of the leaves, and it is also with the beauty of the dusk of the snow country and the roaring fire that illuminate the eyes of the leaves when they die. Is the fire in those eyes survival or despair; hope, or desire; love or hate?
Perhaps, what Yasunari Kawabata wants to tell us is that disorderly, immoral beauty is ultimately illusory and imaginary beauty, and it cannot be accepted by this society or advertised as the aesthetics of the masses. The beauty of the snow country, like spotless snow, can be viewed from a distance, but not close, and once close, those beauties will melt like snow, revealing the original face of the real thing.
The whole novel comes to an end with the death of Leaf. I'm curious about the mystery of Leaf's death, is it really an accident? Judging from the author's several foreshadowings, it seems that it is the work of the colt? But the author did not tell us the answer, readers who have seen "Snow Country", who do you think killed the leaves?
Question: "A flower planted on ______
The answer: morality
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