Among the more than 150 short stories of "literary genius" Ryunosuke Wasagawa, "Rashomon" is one of the most crucial works. At the time of writing this novel, Ryunosuke Wasagawa was published under the pseudonym Ryunosuke Yanagawa. Later, the author also named the collection of short stories "Rashomon", and other works published by Ryunosuke Yanagawa were not included, which shows the status of Rashomon in the creative career of Ryunosuke Wasagawa. Today, we will enjoy the ten aphorisms in Ryunosuke Wasagawa's most important short story "Rashomon", experience the author's inner thoughts, and believe that you will feel something.
Ryunosuke Wasagawa is good at short stories, known as the "New Technique School", and has written a large number of popular and skilled short stories in a short career of ten years. The novel "Rashomon" is interesting, dignified, humorous and natural, highly respected, and is appreciated by the predecessor Natsume Soseki. Why did Ryunosuke Wasagawa write this novel? Let's find out what happened. In the months leading up to the novel's publication, Ryunosuke Wasagawa's relationship was opposed by his parents, and his emotions were depressed and depressed, so he chose to escape from reality and write novels that would make him feel happy.
Reading "Rashomon" can have a feeling of quick knife cutting through the mess and being in full swing. The main theme of the novel is the pursuit of self-interest, the author's heart is to get rid of the pain of lost love, based on the classical story of a thousand years ago, recreating the occurrence and development of a kind of self-interested behavior that people have spawned in a special environment, and then revealing the social roots that lead to such an ugly phenomenon, which has profound social practical significance. If you read through Rashomon, you have to admire Ryunosuke Wasagawa's extraordinary literary talent, he not only makes the work shine dazzlingly, but also makes the work enduring.
The language of "Rashomon" is concise and clear, using multiple contrasts to show the two sides of human nature, and the environment rendering is just right, suggesting the ending and sadness of the characters. In the novel, Ryunosuke Wasagawa mentions the "big abscess" on the face many times, and each time the "big abscess" appears, it hints at the evil thoughts in the character's heart. In addition, the plot and characters of the novel "Rashomon" expose the social customs of the time, let the helpless evil cover up the transformation of human nature, expose the contradiction between the coexistence of good and evil in human beings, and clearly display the two sides of human beings in front of the reader.
As an excellent short story, in addition to the readable sentence form, it is also extremely clever in the setting of time and space. The novel "Rashomon" is very small, there are not many characters, the plot is still simple, and the specific settings in time and space and the matching of the plot make the novel not only concise and readable, but also convey meaningful ideological connotations to the reader, which is an important reason why the novel can climb the literary hall. Of course, whether a novel can spread in the hearts of a wide range of readers must have unique features in the plot setting.
Although "Rashomon" will have a creepy feeling when reading, it is expected, credible to read, and in line with the actual laws of the development of events. It is worth mentioning that the author Ryunosuke Wasagawa uses environmental descriptions, such as "sunset, late autumn, rainy days" is the setting of time, and "desolate city, decadent people's hearts" and so on are spatial settings, these descriptions provide a time and space background for the work, through the description of disasters and desolation, showing the hearts of people who have been suppressed for a long time, and playing a vital role in the analysis of human nature.
All in all, Ryunosuke Wasagawa's short story Rashomon is a great work, a crucial work in his creative career. Today, we will enjoy the ten aphorisms in the novel together, experience the humanity hidden behind the words, and believe that you will feel something.