Yasunari Kawabata
"Born like the splendid summer flowers, dead like the quiet beauty of autumn leaves." This is probably the most appropriate description of Yasunari Kawabata.
As a typical Japanese writer with a Yamato flavor, he has an atmosphere similar to the Japanese national flower "cherry blossom", slender and sad, subtle and restrained. People often praise cherry blossoms as brilliant, poignant when thankful, and a life of tranquility and purity, beautiful to the purest. For Yasunari Kawabata, writing full of aesthetic emotional works through life, the same is true of the pursuit and attachment to beauty in this life.
However, it is also rumored that Yasunari Kawabata has a pair of big eyes with demonic qi. When a young female editor who had just debuted came to visit him, he stared at her silently for half an hour, and the helpless female editor had to be stared and cried... A well-known writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature has such a funny thing, are you more curious about him? So today, follow me and find out from the perspective of writing materials
Yasushi Kawabata is his own person
Yasunari Kawabata, born in 1899 in Osaka, Japan, is a Japanese neo-sensation writer and famous novelist. In his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 novels, more short and medium stories than long ones. Representative works include "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "Thousand Cranes", "Ancient Capital" and so on.
Kawabata lost his parents at an early age and was dependent on his nearly blind grandfather before the age of 14. At that time, he was frail and withdrawn, but he was determined to "become a good novelist", so he read a lot of books at a young age. Later, with the death of his grandfather, he had no choice but to send people under the fence and wander around.
Growing up in an environment that lacked love and security, Kawabata was full of yearning and attachment to emotions such as love, warmth, and beauty. And in his lifetime, he once met four girls named Chiyo, all of whom more or less soothed him with warm emotions. Although these loves still ended in failure in the end, Kawabata fully released his huge literary nature on the edge of emotion.
In 1920, Kawabata was admitted to the University of Tokyo and became enthusiastic about literature. After graduation, he began to officially enter the literary world and became a professional writer. In 1968, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature with three masterpieces, "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand Cranes", becoming the first Nobel Prize winner in Japan. His works include his pursuit of the supremacy of art, as well as his pursuit of "new feelings" and "new methods of expression".
In his acceptance speech, Anders Osterling also highlighted: "Mr. Kawabata was clearly influenced by modern European realism, but Mr. Kawabata also clearly showed this tendency: he faithfully based himself on Japanese classical literature and maintained and inherited the literary model of pure Japanese tradition." In Mr. Kawabata's narrative technique, a poetry with a delicate charm can be found. ”
Endure hardship in the face of adversity
Yasunari Kawabata's life began in Osaka, but he was not happy. As a teenager, Yasunari Kawabata became a "celebrity attending a funeral" and a "funeral parlor" due to the death of his parents, his sister, grandmother, and grandfather, and even his clothes were "like the smell of burnt hair".
In "Celebrities Attending Funerals", he recorded his difficult situation at that time:
"As a teenager, I didn't have my own home and I didn't have a family. During the school holidays, I also eat at relatives' homes, from this to that family, and go to relatives. Most of the holidays, I usually spend in two close relatives. ”
The bumpy life of the early years is only the beginning of suffering. This lonely teenager grew up in the wandering, experiencing many twists and turns and emotional frustrations. After reading the misery of life, the rich experience cultivated his lonely and sentimental heart, and the increasingly elevated body was full of his depressed but nowhere to pin his emotions, and finally flowed under his pen one by one. In the masterpiece "Ancient Capital", Chieko, who was abandoned by her parents, was sent to the fence for a long time, and although she was also loved, she was always desolate and lonely. From the beginning of the novel, "Parasitize in such a place and survive", it is enough to glimpse the childhood mood of Yasunari Kawabata, and even we can faintly see the figure of the lonely teenager in the words.
Seemingly often in the midst of adversity and suffering, Yasunari Kawabata was not defeated. As a young man, he was determined to become a novelist. The experience and heart tempered by suffering made him "do some wandering dreams", and in middle school, he read a lot of books, often picked up pens to practice writing, poured all kinds of past and full of emotions into the pen, created literary works that amazed the world, and won the Nobel Prize.
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It is suitable for facing the themes of suffering, bravery and perseverance, such as the 2019 National Volume II "Young Students Party", the 2011 Shanghai Volume "Everything Will Pass pk Everything Will Not Pass".
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"As we grope forward in the darkness, the object that tripping us up also holds us up." Yasunari Kawabata, who has been in adversity since birth, is the best proof of this. Although he has repeatedly experienced the difficulties of the world, grown up alone under the blows of the successive deaths of his relatives, and carried the weight forward in the continuous drifting of life, all these sufferings have not become a stumbling block on the road of life, but have made Yasunari Kawabata cast a delicate and sensitive heart under the weight of pain. When picking up the pen for writing, Yasunari Kawabata appeared to be at ease, blending all experiences and emotions into a trickle that made it flow out of the tip of the pen.
Under the illumination of the suffering muse, Yasunari Kawabata has made his painful life experience into a classic trilogy praised by people - "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Thousand Cranes", and won the first Nobel Prize in Literature on behalf of Japan. As Xi Murong said, life is brewing like a season of mellow changes. In the darkness, we will also see the stars that dot it.
Synesthesia in nature
1968 is almost an important turning point in Yasushi Kawabata's life and even In Japanese literature. Yasunari Kawabata not only won the Nobel Prize in Literature on behalf of Japan, but also passed on the traditional Japanese aesthetics - "The Beauty of The Avenue of Nature, the Beauty of Material Sorrow" to every corner of the world, so that the unique Japanese aesthetics are known to more people.
"Spring flowers, autumn moon, rhododendrons, summer, winter snow and cold." Under Yasunari Kawabata, the scenery of the four seasons is arranged and displayed in a colorful way, both in terms of things and people. In "The Dancing Girl of Izu", Yasunari Kawabata compares kaoru's cute image to "a small sycamore", full of vitality and vitality. Every one of his works is like this, and it contains his appreciation and love for the nature of the avenue.
Yasunari Kawabata once woke up in the middle of the night at the inn and found that the begonia flowers were still blooming, "containing a sad beauty." It turns out that "flowers are not sleeping, and so are people". In the middle of such a night, people and flowers are one and the same, snuggling up to each other. In savoring this opportunity with flowers, Yasunari Kawabata sighed that the beauty of nature is infinite, but the beauty that people feel is limited. Despite this, beauty never separates from people, but always penetrates the word moving from the bottom of the heart.
Yasunari Kawabata always discovers the subtle beauty of nature with a delicate heart in a quiet and cold environment. He recorded an aesthetic experience of a mountain tour in "Flowers Don't Sleep":
"The next day, I went to Arashiyama to see the Jade Hall stele carved by Lai Shanyang. Since it is winter, no one comes to Arashiyama to visit. But for the first time, I discovered the beauty of Arashiyama. I've been here a few times before, and as a general attraction, I didn't appreciate its beauty very well. Arashiyama is always beautiful. Nature is always beautiful. Sometimes, though, this beauty is just something that some people see. ”
For Yasunari Kawabata, beauty is the result of encounters and closeness. In the repeated cultivation, Kawabata empathized with him, so when he woke up in the middle of the night, he was like a flower, a flower like a person, and everyone turned out to be at this moment and had not yet fallen asleep.
The emphasis and love for nature is also echoed in Yasunari Kawabata's prose work "The Existence and Discovery of Beauty": "Elegance is to discover the beauty of existence, to feel the beauty that has been discovered, and to create the beauty of feeling." It is true that the most important thing is that this environment 'exists in the natural environment', and the true face of the natural environment, may be the reward of the beautiful god. ”
Applicable to themes such as nature, environmental protection and green life, such as the 2015 Guangdong volume "Perception of Nature", the 2014 Hunan volume "Where the Heart is, where the scenery is", and the 2010 Jiangsu volume "Green Life".
From the Stone Age and the Iron Age to today's machine age, from "reverence for nature" to "man will triumph over heaven", human beings have gradually neglected the protection of green and nature. In the past, the spring was gradually worn away in the steel and iron urban forest, and many literati and writers witnessed this situation and felt deep pain and anxiety in their hearts. So Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring, raises her arms and shouts about the close relationship between life and the environment. Yasunari Kawabata wrote "The Scenery of Spring" with a pen, regretting that the beauty will always live in the dream... When will we hear the childish laughter of the child again—"What are you doing by the window?" "Waiting for spring."