I came into contact with the famous Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata's famous work "Snow Country" in an expired local magazine while on duty the night before. At that time, I casually flipped through a few paragraphs, and I couldn't put it down. I was infected by the beautiful and romantic artistic expression in the novel, and the more I read it, the more interesting it became. Over the years, the problem of reading and writing prone to drowsiness and snoozing has been swept away, and after reading one page, I still want to read the next page.
In fact, I have read many novels by Japanese writer Haruki Harukami, such as "Norwegian Forest", etc. Every time I read one, I will sigh a lot. Most of the novels of Western writers and Japanese writers are modernist expression methods, stream of consciousness, absurdism, and impressionism, and they will not feel fresh about the expression methods when they read more, but will only pay more attention to the themes and flashpoints of human nature expressed in the novels.
Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country" uses an almost aesthetic technique, using the aesthetic scene of nature and the flow of consciousness in the inner world to intertwine, to construct a beautiful picture of the integration of man and nature, man and society, and to do a meticulous dissection of the goodness of human nature, it seems that under the ten-thousand times microscope, you can see the beating of a person's heart, the vein of blood flow, and even the jump of nerve cells caused by changes in the flow of thought.
The protagonist of the novel, Kawashima, travels from Tokyo, crosses the prefectural border, and reaches the small village of Snow Country. Meet a beautiful woman on the train. The woman sat diagonally opposite his seat, and he never saw the full picture of the woman, but only the outline of her beautiful eyes and facial features from the glass window of the train. The beautiful scenery outside the window, the lights at the mountain range at night, from time to time coincide with the woman's eyes and face, and then separate, as if experiencing a beautiful movie-like image of whether it is a dream or an illusion, so that Kawashima's heart is moved and deeply attracted. I want to be close, but I can't stop. This detailed description uses a lot of space, which also leaves a foreshadowing for the in-depth development of the story. What kind of person is this beautiful woman, where will she get off the bus, and will Kawashima still have a chance to meet her? When the train was about to arrive at the station, the woman leaned out of the window and shouted to the station master that she must take care of her brother who had just joined the work at the station. The woman sat with a sick man and took care of him the whole time, but Kawashima did not know what their relationship was. Kawashima was attracted by the woman's pure and soft voice, but still did not see the full picture of her body. His whole mind was attracted to the beautiful woman, and the love was so intense that it was visible. As an Toyo island country with a relatively open relationship between men and women, Shimakawa's behavior is the behavior of normal men.
The almost dreamy and aesthetic depiction of this novel is similar to the midnight bell in ancient Chinese poetry to the passenger ship, the last sight of its people, and the sound of its voice.
When Kawashima arrives at the village of Snow Country, he meets Komako, a woman who works as a geisha at an inn, and forgets the beautiful woman he met on the train.
After the novel meets Komako on Kawashima, the novel focuses on the details of daily life to illustrate the division and fusion of ambiguity and sexual desire between men and women. After reading yasunari Kawabata's novel, I learned that Japanese geisha is a profession that women engage in, and the difference with prostitutes is that they sell their art and do not sell themselves. Girls from poor rural families are mostly sold to inns, bars and brothels to work as geisha, to provide guests with escort services, play tunes, accompany wine, sing, dance, serve and even bathe, bathe men and women, but generally can not have sexual relations. When a woman grows old, she can become a dance teacher or marry a man to live.
Kawashima begins to ask Komako to provide geisha services, but Komako refuses, saying that she is just an ordinary country girl. Later, Komako accompanied the other guests to drink, and after getting drunk, broke into Kawashima's room at night. The two talked until dawn, and Komako was afraid of being discovered and left early. Later, when Komako was drunk and did not wake up, he broke into Kawashima's room and shouted, talking nonsense, opening his collar, and lying on Kawashima. Kawashima couldn't resist the seduction of beauty, and his hand reached into her clothes and touched her chest. Komako stays overnight at Kawashima and leaves after bathing together in the morning. Later, Kawashima tentatively asked Komako to ask her to provide services, but Komako refused.
When Komako plays a three-stringed piano for komako in the guest room after playing for him in the guest room, Kawashima is shocked by Komako's superb piano skills, and then the literary accomplishment shown by Komako makes Kawashima's mentality of wanting to get along with Komako change, and then fall in love with this geisha. I come to Snow Country from Tokyo once a year for three consecutive years. The two just talked and played, but never crossed the line of friendship.
(The novel is only half read, and I'll recount it when I'm done.) ）