Author: Mei He
This time it was real reading, reading aloud, reading affectionately, reading over and over again. I just want to know, how can Yasunari Kawabata write "Snow Country" so beautifully?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (i) "Snow Country" is just a small thing, but the voice is beautiful and almost sad</h1>
At first reading, I didn't think so, and it seemed a little difficult to understand. Just such a small thing, an emotional story that is very common for some men, but it is written ambiguously, right and wrong, vague. The author uses the usual narrative method and the very ordinary character language to tell the story, but in this simple narrative, the author's extremely tangled and complex inner world is expressed.
"Snow Country" is the story of a tokyo dance art researcher named Shimamura who travels three times to a hot spring inn in Snow Country and has an emotional affair with a local geisha named Komako and a beautiful girl Named Leaf who meets on a train.
The novel begins with Shimamura's second trip to snow country, when Shimamura admires the snow at dusk through the car window, he sees the head of the leaf reflected on the car window, and when the leaf and the train station station master have a conversation, Shimamura, as a bystander, likes the pure and beautiful girl in front of him from their conversation.
He then learns of his old lover Komako's relationship with Leaf. From then on, between the three of them, a delicate and simple emotional relationship between men and women was formed.
Perhaps, it is this simple emotion that moves me, makes me involuntarily sink my heart to read again, and then be moved by the cross-description of the psychological activities and scenes of the characters in the article, indulge in this amazing language, imagine the beautiful and lovely image of the heroine Komako under the influence of love, and can't help but read it over and over again.
Although it is a life in different eras and different environments, the feelings between people are connected, and the language of the author's pen can bring their emotional beauty through time and space, and the charm of this literature, the charm of words, how fascinating!
The novel deepens the main body's feelings from the simple exclamation of the male protagonist Shimamura to the final complex emotion, of which the lament of the love affair between men and women is the most prominent. The most prominent thing in the novel is the author's touch on natural objects, especially the sense of impermanence brought to him by the change of seasons throughout the text, the entire description of the change of seasons, the description of environmental changes, the description of the hearts of the characters, full of sad beauty, the beauty of moving, the beauty of helplessness, the beauty of grasping, the beauty of retention.
When the geisha Komako truly falls in love with her customer, Shimamura, she is trapped in frank and pure feelings and cannot sustain herself in the face of the particularity of her identity. Shimamura clearly knows that Komako is infatuated with him, but he thinks that Komako's love pursuit and even her survival itself is a futile and pathetic, and this sense of distance under social identity makes Shimamura fall in love with the beautiful and moving maiden leaf, but the leaf is out of reach for him.
For literary critics, the author's writing background greatly influences the novelist's true thinking. Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country" seems to have nothing to do with the era of Japan's crazy aggression at that time, but the author's sense of powerlessness about the things in front of him and the sense of futility under the passionate life are everywhere. In the novel, the hero and heroine's sadness about people and things, the beautiful yearning for love, and the inner world filled with this contradiction show a kind of desolate beauty in the author's pen.
Leaf's "voice is beautiful and almost sad", "the indescribable beauty that makes Shimamura's heart almost tremble." "The woman gives the impression of being surprisingly clean, even giving the impression that her toes are probably clean in the crooks of her toes." This description of beauty is exactly the author's disgust and escape from the ugly phenomena in real society, and the pursuit of beauty makes him feel helpless and sad.
The snow country is a white expanse under the night sky, "the mountain is covered with moonlight, which is the only scenery at the end of the wilderness, although the moonlight fades with fading, but the afterglow is endless, which can't help but make people feel like a winter night." Yingying Haoyue shot in deeply, illuminating even the concave and convex lines of the colt's ears. In the depiction of these scenes, there is a faint sadness that flows out of Shimamura's subjective emotions.
The last sentence of the novel, "The Milky Way seems to be rattling and pouring down on his heart." The author ends the novel with a sad beauty, a shocking beauty.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (ii) There are countless kinds of beauty in the world, and the beauty of sorrow is the most touching beauty</h1>
The death of the leaves reveals the beauty, such as the white snow, the brilliant stars, and the dazzling fire. The life of the leaf is like a string of mournful notes floating in the air, scattered and scattered, before it can form a beautiful song, it has been hurriedly scattered.
There are countless kinds of beauty in the world, and the beauty of sorrow is the most touching beauty. The imagery beauty presented by the snow country has a sense of silence and coldness, whether it is snow or layers of mountains, in the author's pen is so quiet and long, like a dream, like a cry, the whole book is full of ethereal and beautiful atmosphere.
When Shimamura first saw Komako, he said, "The cedar trees are like a cover, and if you don't hold your hands on the rocks behind you, you can't see the treetops." Moreover, the trunk of the tree is straight, and the dark green leaves obscure the sky, and the surrounding area appears deep and quiet. "Also" It was a cold night scene, as if the sound of ice cracking could be heard deep in the entire frozen crust. There is no moon, look up, the sky is full of stars, it is unbelievable. The stars shone brightly, as if they were slowly falling down at an illusory speed. The stars moved closer and closer, pushing the night sky farther and farther away, and the night became deeper and deeper. The mountains at the county boundary were already layered, appearing even darker and heavier hanging from the edge of the starry sky. It was a cold, quiet and harmonious atmosphere."
Artistic conception gives people an unlimited imagination. The ubiquitous depictions of scenery in "Snow Country" allow readers to expand their imaginations, combine the story and deeply understand the intentions in the novel, which may be a kind of literary charm!
The imagery beauty in the snow country, like the flying butterfly, the white and flawless snow, all show a flowing ethereality, and the author's aesthetic imagery is closely related to the characters. The display of the character is placed in the transformation of the scenery, and the sensitivity of the character's language is placed in the change of events, and this seemingly bland story description is profoundly and implicitly technicalized. "The more skilled the more silent", the beauty of "Snow Country" is exactly this.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > (iii) The emotional world of the author is also a bleak beauty</h1>
Going back to the beginning of the novel, "Through the long tunnel of the county border, there is a snow country." The night sky is white. The train stopped in front of the signalhouse. ”
The time, place, and story take place, followed by the appearance of the characters, telling the life and background of the characters in the dialogue.
A very ordinary beginning, a very ordinary event, but in the unfolding of the story step by step, it is naturally described, and people can't help but sink into it. Until the end, "When Shimamura stood firm and looked up, the Milky Way seemed to make a clatter, pouring down on his heart. With the death of the leaf, the story suddenly stopped, no more words were said, and the beautiful ending was endless.
The most beautiful things always make people move. The Japanese scholar of traditional Chinese medicine, Motoju Nobunaga, once said: "In the various feelings of people, only bitterness, sorrow, and sorrow, that is, all unsatisfactory things, are the most profoundly touching." ”
The love in "Snow Country" is a kind of desolate beauty, the author's emotional world is also a kind of desolate beauty, and the corresponding real world is a kind of desolate beauty.
【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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