Junichi Watanabe's classic masterpiece " Paradise Lost" comprehensively presents the literary appeals of Watanabe writers. "Paradise Lost" borrows from Milton's "Paradise Lost" in the 18th century, and expresses the literary motif of human beings expelled from Paradise because of reason. Junichi Watanabe created this astonishing work, which spanned two hundred years to echo it.
"Paradise Lost" portrays a pair of middle-aged men and women who are attracted to each other, gradually indulging in passionate sex and unable to extricate themselves, and finally walking into heaven hand in hand. The heroine, Rinko Matsubara, is a full-time wife who works part-time as a calligraphy teacher at a cultural center, with an elegant appearance and a dignified and elegant temperament. Her husband is a professor of surgery at a famous medical university and the director of surgery in a major hospital, and belongs to the absolute social elite. Such a husband and wife file, in the eyes of outsiders, is enviable. But in fact, their husband and wife relationship has always been in a state of estrangement, even if the husband returns home, he is buried in the study, and there is little communication between the husband and wife, and even the sex life is very little.
Shoichiro Kugi is a famous editor of a cultural weekly magazine, due to his increasing age, the change of personnel has gradually made his career gradually enter a downward spiral, and the unsmooth career has seriously affected his emotions. His only daughter is married, and the relationship with his wife is also cold and indifferent, and he has long been separated from each other. By chance, such a pair of men and women met, and the dignified and charming Rinzi brought infinite happiness and vitality to Hisagi; and Hisaki, who was highly skilled in sex, also made Rinko realize the true meaning of sex. With the deepening of the exchange, they loved each other so much that they fell deeper and deeper into their lust, and finally they rebelled and were not tolerated by the world, and finally they martyred together. The description of the autopsy report in the epilogue is quite professional, reflecting Junichi Watanabe's deep medical skills as a surgical elite.
After reading this book, many people think that the death of Hisaki and Rinko is due to guilt and guilt, but this is actually a misreading. The whole novel does not focus too much on the description of "guilt and guilt", but the male and female protagonists repeatedly emphasize that "there is nothing wrong with being with the person they love", so why did they commit suicide?
I believe that to understand Japanese literature, it is necessary not only to understand universal humanity, but also to understand the characteristics of the Yamato nation. Japan is an open and conservative people, both peaceful and repressive, both disciplined and promiscuous. Therefore, when The violent extramarital affair between Hisaki and Rinko was exposed, they were immediately pointed out by thousands of husbands and were not tolerated by the world, they could only warm each other, and their hearts were lonely and desperate. Kuki was demoted by the director of the company because of the extramarital affair, he felt that "he was getting farther and farther away from his colleagues, he felt more and more lonely, and it seemed that there was only Rinko left around"; and the situation of Rinko was the same, she had always had a harmonious relationship with her mother's family, because of the relationship between extramarital love, "her mother did not even let her go back to worship her father, because she was humiliated, Rinko felt abandoned by the world" So she said to Kuki: "I only have you." In this way, they already feel that they have no love, and they do not want to get married, because once they get married, love will become family affection, and they are afraid of such a result. So they chose to end their lives in the happiest moment, at the moment of their climax.
So what is love? The writer has made it very clear: love is a passion, a feeling, no matter how fierce love can not withstand the passage of time and the polishing of life, will eventually become lazy and return to the ordinary, and once love enters the stage of marriage, there will be a thousand holes, showing difficult to repair the cracks, in the end are "short-lived", no one can promise a lifetime. Therefore, the male and female protagonists are also quite aware of this, as long as people live, they will definitely change their hearts, and there will be a day of mutual boredom. Therefore, Rin Zi said: "Maybe the warm love will not last too long, and I want to end it when it is warm." Kuki felt the same way, and thought that they were at their peak now, and they were all going downhill in the future. So they made one last love, and at the climax of both sides, drank red wine mixed with potassium cyanide, and their bodies were not separated until death.
How to defend the height of love? That is, when the two feel the best, let life come to an abrupt end, in order to freeze each other's beauty forever at the highest point. The love between Hisaki and Rinko is like the cherry blossoms in April, and the luxury of its bloom and the dashingness of its sunset are equally intoxicating and pitiful.
The work deals with men and women, love and sex throughout. What kind of women do men like? "A woman who was originally dignified and elegant suddenly became debauched and confused, and it was intoxicating to look at; and a woman who was originally debauched and confused, no matter what, looked at it without interest." "In the case of not affecting the family, talking to the women outside and making love, enjoying both the tranquility of the family and the passion outside, this is the greatest wish of every middle-aged and elderly man." Junichi Watanabe can always get to the point.
Of course, love is indispensable to the spiritual connection, but the physical aspect is also very important. There may even be spiritual connections that are not so close, and that the flesh is so infatuated that they cannot be separated. Sex itself burns up all the energy for the sake of instant pleasure, and this moment of happiness, perhaps many women have never experienced in their lives, that kind of happiness, only the beloved man can bring to women, that happiness, can not be expressed in words. Throughout the novel, there are a large number of depictions of sexual scenes, which are beautiful and romantic, making people immersed in the scene, and Watanabe's erotic feelings are fully reflected.
"Paradise Lost" is a desperate encounter, a torment of love like water and fire; the most beautiful burst of love sparks, the most inseparable struggle between spirit and flesh. If marriage is not a paradise for love, where should we find the paradise we lost?