Hayashi Mariko, a woman with a high literary status in Japan, was once called "the one who knows women best." In addition to the ubiquitous psychological analysis of Hayashi's works, there is also an undisguised calmness about women's desires and weaknesses.
The book "Autumn Forest" is a word-of-mouth bestseller by Japanese female novelist Mariko Hayashi. The author begins to portray a woman with a happy family and a successful career, but in the seemingly happy illusion, there is a desperate repression. The mother's illness, the husband's indifference and suspected cheating, the daughter's pressure to go to school, etc. are all paved, and the heroine falls directly from a happy and smooth life into the plight of middle age, and the sudden identity transformation makes the heroine's inner suffering and loss, lonely and helpless. By describing the weaknesses in human nature, Hayashi Maiko explicitly shows the pain, suspicion and loneliness of women at this stage to the reader.
The contradictions and emotions depicted in the book about the issue of parental support are particularly profound. In the face of the mother of senile dementia, the attitude of all parties is also very realistic and cruel, the husband's indifference and indifference, the ruthlessness of the brother and sister-in-law, and their own loneliness and helplessness will directly escalate this contradiction, and the heroine has lost the spiritual support from her mother and is eager to find foreign aid - extramarital love. This result seems inevitable under pressure from all sides, but on closer inspection, it is just a self-destructive drinking and quenching thirst.
The wonderful psychological analysis that Hayashi is good at is especially wonderful in this book. At the end of the book, the heroine's mother has an accident, and a monologue in her heart vividly shows the character's inner entanglement, struggle, pain and despair, and the character's hidden stubbornness and vitality, which makes people shoot the case. In the face of difficulties, even if the black hole under our feet makes people struggle to fall into it, people's innate desire to survive will push us forward and not compromise.
About the Author
Mariko Hayashi
Judge of the Naoki Prize, Japan's highest literary award, winner of the Naoki Prize, queen of bestsellers, and his works have sold 30 million copies in Japan.
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1954. Worked as a contributing writer. In 1982, he published a collection of essays, "Buy a Good Mood and Go Home", which became a bestseller. In 1986, he won the 94th Naoki Prize for "Just Catch the Last Flight" and "To Kyoto". In 1995, he won the 8th Shibata Shunzaburō Award for "Love White Lotus". In 1998, he won the 32nd Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Award for "Everyone's Secret". Recently, there are mainly "Beautiful Life", "The First Man is the Benchmark", "Whatever It Takes Beauty", "Have You Liked Me?" " and many other works.
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When her brother Shinichi called, Hiroko Hinoshita was pouring black tea into the cup with a pot.
Hiroko is the manager of an imported furniture store, and a new black tea specialty store has opened near the furniture store. With the mentality of tasting it, Hiroko chose an English breakfast tea. At the moment, she was brewing hot water into the pot. Compared with black tea, her husband Yasuhiko and her ten-year-old daughter Qishi both love to drink coffee. Early in the morning, the father and daughter took a few sips of coffee in a panic and went out with toast in their mouths. After sending her husband and daughter away, Hiroko would sip black tea leisurely and read the newspaper. For her, it was a daily "little luck" 1 moment. The furniture store opens at eleven o'clock, and it is enough to arrive at the store before ten o'clock. Arguing about being fat, Hiroko still smeared butter on the toast and a layer of orange peel jam bought from Kii Kuniya Supermarket 2. It was a habit she had developed since she was a teenager. Black tea, unlike coffee, must be sipped slowly. It was time to go to the bathroom to put on her makeup and get ready to go out, and she was still unsatisfied, wanting to taste a few more bites.
Who knew that at this time, the phone rang, and Hiroko's elegant breakfast time was interrupted. I glanced at the clock, and it was already past two o'clock at nine o'clock. Could it be that something happened to which guest who was anxious to move? She pondered, and took the earpiece, but it was her brother's long-lost voice.
"Can you come back in two days?" Something to discuss with you. ”
What needs to be discussed is the matter of the mother's pawn. When my father died twelve years ago, my mother rebuilt the old house in the family, turned it into a two-family pattern, and maintained a relationship with my brother's family, and has been living alone. Just a few days ago, she fell in the bathroom. Although it was no big deal, she was discharged from the hospital, but then her speech and behavior were obviously strange, and when she spoke, she would suddenly not match the preface.
"Not that. I was on the phone with my mother the other day, and it was normal to listen to her. ”
"Will it be early dementia, the symptoms are intermittent." Mom and my family Zhengmei said something to it. Sure enough, the daughter and the daughter-in-law are not the same in the end. ”
You have to see a doctor. Anyway, my brother said he would discuss it with Hiroko.
"No kidding. How old are you when you are a mother, only seventy-two years old? What would be demented at this age! ”
Hiroko complained loudly, but her mind quickly calculated: Maybe her mother is seventy-three years old. I am forty-two years old this year, and my mother was exactly thirty years old when she was born. At this time, my mother's birthday has not yet arrived, and she is still seventy-two years old.
Suddenly unable to say her mother's age, Hiroko was a little ashamed, so she could not be too harsh on her brother. Besides, chatting with my mother on the phone was half a month ago.
"Got it. This month I take a Thursday off, and the day after tomorrow passes. ”
Hiroko tells her brother that she will go after dinner early. The sister-in-law is not bad, not so much that she is not thoughtful and clever enough, but that she is completely indifferent to others. This kind of stupidity, many times inevitably misunderstood by people is out of malice. But the mother always laughed it off, thinking that this was the open-mindedness cultivated by the sister-in-law. How could such a smart and understanding mother be demented? There is nothing so outrageous in the world.