Author: Mei He
The Nobel Prize-nominated Japanese national writer Junichiro Tanizaki's "Haruka Scribe" is a romance novel, and its cruel, beautiful and legendary sadistic love story is more charming after being put on the stage by the playwright. As Yasunari Kawabata commented: "Such a masterpiece is indescribable, only a sigh." "What else can you say but sigh?" I am amazed by the author's unique construction that rises above traditional writing.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (1) The original novel can still be written like this</h1>
If you don't know anything about Japan, you can learn a thing or two in this book.
For example, the highest title for blind musicians is called "Inspection School"; the musician second only to the inspection school is called "Godan"; the tomb that no one sacrifices sweep is called "Buddha"; the ancient name of Osaka Port is "Nambatsu"; in Osaka, people call the rich lady "Big Sister" or "Sister A".
These little common sense appears at any time in the text to help the reader understand the background of the story, and to further explain and elaborate the story to highlight its authenticity.
With delicate writing techniques, the author shows the master-apprentice love, husband and wife love, master-servant love, and same door love between Haruka and Sasuke, and at the same time reflects the two-sided character of Chunqin, a blind artist, and her stubborn thinking on art, as well as Sasuke's humble scholarly artist's persistent and affectionate love for master.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (2) Love in "Chunqin Copy", almost abusive and cruel</h1>
Sasuke's love for Haruka reminds me of a popular saying at the moment: Life is short, and I am willing to spend my life pursuing a person, a love, a love. It also reminds me of the marriage vows at church: love her, be faithful to her, whether she is poor, sick or disabled, until she dies.
For two people in love, love is sacred and equal. But in "Haruka", the love between Haruka and Sasuke is class-oriented and unequal. When Haruka gave birth to Sasuke's child, they did not dare to admit it; when Haruka was disfigured, Sasuke actually self-destructed his eyes; when Haruka died, Sasuke was willing to lower his status to accompany the underside of her grave. This almost deformed selfless love should make countless quarrelsome and divorced couples ashamed of themselves. If you love someone, how can you break up casually?
In many literary works, there are also many stories of master and servant falling in love, and although their love affair is bumpy and difficult, the hero and heroine are always in love.
In "Chunqin Copy", Haruka's love for Sasuke is almost abusive and cruel, not to mention that Haruka is afraid of the humiliation brought to them by their disparity in identity and does not dare to accept Sasuke publicly, saying that later they have children and send people away, which is not something that a mother can do, nor can a wife do, but Haruka did it, and Sasuke did not object.
In the face of their own children, are the hearts of two people so cruel? Are two people in love with each other just for art? Or is it your own physiological needs? In the story, the author does not give a detailed explanation of the whereabouts of these children, but only casually mentions that they and the children do not recognize each other, nor do they have contact, and these two respected Japanese artists have no heirs until their deaths. Reading this, I feel sad and helpless as a woman and a mother.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (iii) An excellent literary work is always thought-provoking</h1>
In "Chunqin Copy", although Chunqin's sadistic love is not worth advocating, its pursuit of artistic excellence is admirable. A blind person, in the process of learning and passing on art, encounters difficulties that can be imagined, and it is understandable that her psychology has undergone distorted changes. When the writer describes Chunqin's artistic life, he is beautiful and elegant, and all this seems to have something in common with the characteristics of art.
Her harsh demands on personal beauty, her strict requirements for her disciples, and her hatred for brazen people all show that she is an upright and innocent artist, and she once said to Sasuke: "Those who can overcome poverty and get ahead should be born different, and only tenacity and enthusiasm are not enough." "A true artist treats art as if he were his own life and life, self-disciplined and hardworking.
Chunqin's life is both gratifying and sad. The good thing is that she was born in a rich family and has been loved by her parents all her life, and the sad thing is that she has been blind since she was a child and has not received the happiness and freedom of a rich lady. She is like the lark she raised, although she has the ambition of the bird, there is no soaring blue sky.
When her natural talent is suffocated in an environment that no one understands, her beauty and talent are envied and retaliated against, and her heart is like a lark, eager to fly, flying straight into the clouds. She loves birds and loves birds, but she can't see birds flying. When her lark rushed out of the birdcage and never returned, her life came to an end.
Love is beautiful, art is beautiful, the writer's artistic conception is also beautiful, everything is illusory, only two tombstones are real, one is a master, the other is a disciple. One loves each other, one abuses each other. One is dignified, one is humble. A headstone is on top and a headstone is on the bottom. One tombstone is large and one is small. All this seems to explain something, and nothing is said.
The moment I closed the book, I couldn't help but sigh: Is this sadistic love love love? Whether they love or not, they strictly abide by the etiquette of master and apprentice, inherit art, transmit ideas, and abide by the art path, which is worthy of respect by future generations.
【About the Author】Mei He, a member of the Henan Xinxiang Writers Association, published the collection of essays "Mei He Anthology".
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