Appreciation of Lake's Works

Yin Ping, the hero of Lake, is beautiful because of ugliness, and he longs for beauty to enter the "magic world" on the road of pursuing beauty. The constant failure and rotation show the confusion of entering the "magic world", which makes people deeply feel the pain of ugly fate and the anxiety of seeking beauty relief.

Yin Ping, the hero, is a middle-aged man who has a hobby of following beautiful women. Generally speaking, he is also the idiot who likes to follow beautiful girls in people's eyes. In this book, Yin Ping's three tail-walking experiences are written. The objects of these three tails are his students, a beautiful woman who lost her youth with the help of an old man, and a girl in love. In the real society, such behavior is obviously not allowed, based on law and reason. In the process of social development, rationality is dominant. The preface of this book mentions Freud's Civilization and its Dissatisfaction, which says: "A civilized society emphasizes beauty, cleanliness and order, and people living in a civilized society must kneel down, suppress their instinctive impulses and pursue cultural ideals. People find that cultural ideals are not easy to get, but they have to suppress their sexual desire and competitiveness, which naturally makes them very depressed. However, the setback of the world is the victory of civilized society, and happiness is an elusive luxury. "

Since Yin Ping, a teenager (after his father died), Yin Ping began to pursue "beauty" with a broken heart (fatherless, ugly and dead mother). Beauty in fantasy does exist in reality, but it can never be pursued. But also hurt him again. In particular, his love for his cousin Yayoi, especially his love affair with student Kuko, hit him even harder. Although Kuko always loved her teacher, she left Yin Ping and got married under the pressure of reality.

In the novel, most of the women that Yin Ping follows and follows are mentally damaged or even abnormal, such as Miyako. It shows that in reality, even what Yin Ping thinks of as "beauty" is not so perfect. In Yin Ping's mind, he thinks Kuko is the most perfect one and Machichi is the other. But Ma Chizhi also called himself "unfortunate". So, is the "pure" beauty in Yin Ping's illusion in sharp contrast with the so-called beauty in reality? Therefore, Yin Ping's sentimentality is eternal, his tragic ending is inevitable, and the result of his "pursuit" is bound to be disappointing! Will it develop into despair? Only we can think for ourselves. Ugly and twisted human nature, sad and impermanent life. This is the reality, this is the society we live in, happiness will soon pass, but the pain of life, the disappointment of pursuit or the pain of thinking will always exist!

Why does Yin Ping like to follow those beautiful women? In the novel, Yin Ping said, "It's a pity to break up with strangers and be a passerby ... I often feel this way. What a nice person and a beautiful woman! In this world, there is no other person who can make me fall in love so much. I met such a person by chance, maybe I passed by on the road, maybe I sat side by side in the theater, or I walked down the steps side by side in front of the concert hall, and then I broke up like this, and I will never see you again in my life. Even so, you can't stop strangers from answering her. Is life like this? At this time, I am heartbroken, sometimes in a daze and delirious. I want to follow it to the end of the world, but I can't. Because tracking to the end of this world, you must kill her. "

Interestingly and sadly, Yin Ping's pursuit of beauty in hallucinations is always not available. Self-considered ugliness always comes uninvited. The first time I followed Kuko, I was followed by street angels; The firefly catcher will come back, be followed by a poor prostitute who takes part in accidental amusement, and drink together; What I abandoned in my hallucination may be my own baby tracking. This undoubtedly deepened Yin Ping's disappointment and despair in the pursuit of beauty. The pursuit of beauty is not available, and this beauty is not perfect; The ugliness I try to avoid always sticks to myself. All these contradictions have shaped Yin Ping's eternal sad image. This contradiction cannot be solved by Yin Ping, Kawabata Yasunari, human beings and the existing society. It can be said that Yin Ping's experience is essentially the same as his father's life ending, and he is the embodiment of his father. Yin Ping's pursuit of women's beauty (or beauty) is very similar to her father's pursuit of beautiful mother. Yin Ping's ending can be imagined.

In the comprehensive works, the intersection of these women and Yin Ping appeared from the beginning of the tracing behavior, which can be divided into these categories: women who are residents of the underworld with Yin Ping and can radiate "magic" with Yin Ping, and unreachable women, such as "holy" girls in heaven, women in bathhouses, princesses who seek sex in real life, and middle-aged women, such as Entian and Achen, who are for their own sake. The latter two can be classified by women in the "secular" world. Every time a woman who attracts Yin Ping appears in her works, she will arrange a "vulgar" woman, suggesting that Yin Ping will return to reality after every pursuit of beauty, prompting Yin Ping to launch a new pursuit, but the pursuit is fruitless and returns to reality. Yin Ping is always wandering in the lost pursuit and ugly reality, forming a closed cycle. This also happens to echo the creative technique of the "stream of consciousness" in the work itself, and sometimes it falls into memories and fantasies when it comes to reality.

From this perspective, Yin Ping's trailing desire stems from his instinctive impulse to seek beauty, which is an important or fleeting beauty in Japanese culture, symbolized by cherry blossoms. In Japan, there is a word called "for a while", which is a tea ceremony term. Later, it had a deeper meaning. Simply put, this is the case: a person may meet the same person only once in his life, and the person in front of you may not appear in your life in the future, so cherish every encounter. In Japanese culture and aesthetics, one-off beauty, that is, the shortness of life and death, is the ultimate beauty. Beauty will die young, beauty will be unlucky, and long-lasting things will not be cared for by the beauty god. However, appearance and disappearance create the eternity of beauty, so Kawabata Yasunari said:

"Beauty, once expressed in this world, will not die."

Through the protagonist Yin Ping, The Lake shows a kind of behavior of being beautiful because of ugliness, longing for beauty to give warm love, but falling into evil because of ugly inferiority. Looking forward to the spiritual world of beauty redemption. This is also the "magic world" that Kawabata Yasunari entered on the road of pursuing beauty. In this world, the pursuit of "beauty" breaks through the ethical precepts in the name of "ugliness". It is a pure natural feeling from the heart and a natural resistance under physical and mental repression. However, stepping into the "magic world" to seek beauty is an act of falling into the abyss of "evil" voluntarily, and we must endure the pain of falling into "evil" and its consequences. The protagonist Yin Ping's constant failure and rotation in the pursuit of beauty also shows the confusion of entering the magical world, which makes people deeply feel the pain of "ugly" fate and the anxiety of seeking beauty relief. Three lakes complex

So, what kind of "lake" is this, and why does it bring such a great stimulus to Yin Ping?

Lake is the lake in Yin Ping's mother's hometown. My father 1 1 died in the lake in Yin Ping. Exactly why and how he died, the author only made some hints: "The home of Yayoi (Yin Ping's cousin)-Yin Ping's mother's maiden, has long been a famous family by the lake. Marrying the Yin Ping family with different family backgrounds is probably what happened to my mother. " "Yayoi feels strange: Why should such a beautiful person (referring to Yin Ping's mother) marry such an ugly person as Yin Ping's father?" And "The Yayoi family was accused of cursing, so why did Yin Ping's father deliberately go to his wife's maiden village to commit suicide?" Yayoi said to Yin Ping, "Your mother told my father that if I stayed in that family, I would die. I heard it. " It can be inferred that the father's death is related to the Yayoi family (that is, the lakeside family), and his father died in the lake. Yin Ping vowed to avenge his father. This is one of the complexes of lakes.

Yin Ping fell in love with her cousin Yayoi when her father was alive. After his father died, Yayoi relayed his father's words (that is, Yin Ping's uncle): "Ayin's father has passed away, so aunt should take Ayin home." Yin Ping said, "I don't want it!" "I don't know if I feel as if I will lose my mother and disapprove, or if I am shy about the joy of living in a family with Yayoi, or maybe both." "The reason why Yin Ping fell in love with her grandmother's cousin may be that she secretly has the desire not to lose her mother." But after his father died, Yayun became indifferent to Yin Ping and obviously looked down on him. At this time, Yin Ping hoped that the ice in the lake would crack and drown her two or three-year-old Yayoi. Later, Yayoi married a naval officer. Yin Ping thought, "Now she must be a widow." This is Lake's second complex.

"Yin Ping, this seemingly light and empty man, appeared in his hometown after such a long separation. He thought not of his drowned father, but of his beautiful mother. However, what is engraved in my heart is not the beauty of my mother, but the ugliness of my father. It seems that I don't see more beautiful feet than Yayoi, but my uglier feet. " Yayoi once rolled up his eyes and stared at Yin Ping ... Your monkey feet are exactly like your father's. Not in our blood. "Yin Ping mad. In all novels, Yin Ping mentioned her ugly feet many times, which also caused psychological illusion many times. This is the third complex of the lake.

To sum up:

1. Lake is mother's hometown and father's hometown. The cause of death was related to the lake.

2. The lake is the yayoi of Yin Ping's first love and Yin Ping's hatred for yayoi.

3. The lake is ugly, and it is ugly silver. (and ugliness may be the cause of his father's death. )

Therefore, the novel wrote at the end of the first part:

"Silver flat looked up at a higher and darker forest. On the lake of Mother Village, the firelight of the distant shore at night is reflected. Yin Ping seems to be tempted by the night fire reflected on the water. "

The lake in the novel is of extraordinary significance to Yin Ping: in the understanding of ordinary people, the lake was originally a beautiful thing. In the novel, the lake is the most vivid clue of Yin Ping's twisted growth, and it is almost a realistic symbol of Yin Ping's twisted psychology. It entrusted almost all the negativity and sadness in Yin Pingsheng's life.

stream of consciousness

The novel consists of four parts (naturally separated by blank lines), all of which are about Yin Ping's history of tracking women, interspersed with some subconscious sources of tracking motivation (namely, lake complex).

The novel completely adopts the creative technique of stream of consciousness, and the whole story consists of fantasy, auditory hallucination, association and memory. Time flashback, from near to far, mixed space, and finally centered on the lake. The lake is the main trigger point of association and memory. With the help of the lake, the reality is brought to the dreamy world, and the reality is brought back from the dreamy world. By describing the psychological trajectory of stream of consciousness and fantasy, the writer further explores the secrets of the inner activities of the characters and excavates the spiritual world of the opposition between beauty and ugliness in people's hearts.

Part I: Turkish Bathhouse-Shui Mu Miyako-Yumujiuko-Yayoi.

Tao Jing Yin Ping appeared in Karuizawa in late summer (early autumn), changed his clothes and entered the Turkish bathhouse. When the maid bathed him, her voice touched Yin Ping: "Yin Ping almost shed tears. From the girl's voice, he felt pure happiness and warm help. Is this the voice of an eternal woman or a loving mother? " When he took a bath, he had many hallucinations: the sound of the piano, the coast of his hometown, the memory of a tram avenue in Tokyo, the child hitting his father's forehead with his hand and the loess wall at the bottom of the tomb. When the girl massaged Yin Ping's chest, Yin Ping was worried that touching the girl's side would get an ear scraper, so she had hallucinations: she remembered the process of being severely hit in the eye by the woman who was being followed with a handbag during a recent tracking. When the woman ran away, she didn't pick up her handbag. Yin Ping found that there were two hundred thousand yen and a passbook in it, and then she knew that the woman's name was Shui Mu Miyako. As can be seen from the twists and turns in Yin Ping's heart, the living conditions in Yin Ping are already very poor at this time, and the money comes at the right time. "Just like Yin Ping chasing that woman, money is chasing Yin Ping like a living thing with a soul." Yin Ping's logic of following women reminds him of the first woman he followed, Yumiko. (Kuko is a high school student and a student in Yin Ping. After their relationship was exposed, Yin Ping was expelled from the faculty. It says here that Yin Ping cheated Kuko-asked for beriberi medicine. This lie also shows the profound influence of Yin Ping's ugly feet in his subconscious. The first headache caused by Yumuguzi (afraid of the exposure of their relationship) was distorted by a "street angel" (wild prostitute), which made him happy and relaxed, thus linking him with the coolness of the lakeside wind: the lakeside family, the death of his father, and the indifferent relationship with his cousin. Then he went back to the street angel. Yin Ping said, "I am a bachelor's teacher." She replied: "I am also a single female student." I once again thought of Kuko, a secret conversation about their relationship, until Kuko's girlfriend denounced their relationship and he was expelled from school. Back to today:

In the Turkish bathhouse in Karuizawa, I talked to a girl about athlete's foot, and thought of lying to Kuko to defend myself for following women ("Following women is also a foot", "Is it an ugly part of my body, crying for envy of beauty?" Is ugly feet envious of beautiful women born? ") From seeing a girl's bra to thinking of tearing off a long bra, it's back to reality. Out of the bathhouse, in the yard at night, Yin Ping "appeared the illusion of a huge spider web" and the illusion that the fire on the lake lured Yin Ping away at night. These two visions are quite meaningful. The former is the image of Yin Ping struggling in the society, while the latter is the fundamental driving force for Yin Ping to live in the society like this.

Comments: The first film has pulled out all the people and the things behind it in Phantom, which can be said to be the prelude and beginning of this drama.

Part II: Shui Mu Miyako-Keisuke-Mizuno-Machiyuki.

Twenty-five-year-old Shui Mu Miyako is a concubine of a rich family with farmland (seventy years old). The rich family with farmland has bought a house with water supply and a wooden Miyako to live in, and Chen and Yuko are servants. Shui Mu Palace fled home after being followed by Yin Ping and asked Xing Zi to find her handbag. Chen asked Miyako to call the police. Omiya doesn't want to report the case, let alone tell Youtian, because the 200,000 is kept privately. Omiya being followed not only makes her feel scared, but also makes her feel happy, that is, "happy numbness." The palace here is often followed by men, who bet with Arita that Arita's family situation is also involved. When Yoda was two years old, his parents divorced and his father married his stepmother. For him, the only person who can make himself forget the horror of this world is his mother, so he lives with a beautiful woman in her thirties, namely the housekeeper Mei Zi and my aunt. He leaned his head on their arms, put their nipples in his mouth and enjoyed the feeling of maternal love. Another sick old man. ) But Omiya feels that youth is disappearing. On the night that Omiya lost her handbag, Tian came to Omiya and had a talk with her about the man who followed her. Miyako said that she lost money because of her brother Keisuke, but she reduced the amount by half. After sleeping in Ota, Miyako recalled her brother's friend Mizuno and his lover Chihiro, her acquaintance with them, the relationship between her brother Mizuno and Chihiro, and the scene of going to Ueno to see cherry blossoms at night. Then I went back to the theme of sleeping. This part is directly extracted from the first part, and introduces Miyako Shuimu's life in detail. Abnormal condition is the character's characteristic;

Omiya: I sell myself for a living and have a field.

Youtian: When she lived with Mei Zi and Gongzi because of the Oedipus plot, she showed a mother-child relationship with two women.

Chen: The theory of abnormal wealth accumulation.

However, in sharp contrast to the above characters, the pure town has become the envy of omiya. Therefore, Miyako is associated with his younger brother and friend Mizuno, while Mizuno is associated with Mizuno's lover Qianji. But Machichi denied that he was happy. However, Miyako still thinks that she is infatuated with Machichi and follows her with men, and her feelings are the same.

As can be seen from the following, Miyako's infatuation with Machimura coincides with Yin Ping's infatuation with Machimura. Omiya and Yin Ping belong to the same category. Just a passive one and an active one. (In the novel, the girl in Miyako is rarely mentioned, except that Miyako was born in a rich family. When Miyako was three or four years old, she went to the temple with her mother to pray that her father would get better soon. )

Part III: Yin Ping-Machizhi-(Yayoi)-(Millet)-(Entian)

This part focuses on Yin Ping's ignorance, thus recalling most of his relationship with Kuko (middle and late period). Focus on kuko.

In Ginkgo Street, Yin Ping met a girl, Machiji, who was holding a Japanese dog (Yin Ping didn't know her name). Because she is "intoxicated with the girl and has forgotten herself", she follows the girl. From the girl's clothes, appearance and beautiful skin, Yin Ping naturally thinks of Yayoi in the past and Yumu Kuko, a student who once taught her, but now she feels that they can't even reach the girl's feet. Then Yin Ping was linked by a dog led by a girl and Yayoi's dog catching mice. Then he thought that once a dog killed a mouse, Yayoi "ordered" Yin Ping to throw the mouse with bleeding mouth into the "lake", which made him hate Yayoi's poodle (here, the mouse is just a symbol of nausea and disgust. )

I went back to Yin Ping to follow the girl and chat with her until I saw her tryst with her lover Mizuno (a friend of Miyako's younger brother). (At this time, Miyako's story and Ma Chizhi's story have an intersection. Yin Ping envied and cursed. At this moment, he closed his eyes and remembered an experience: he and Yayoi sat under the cherry blossoms by the lake and talked about the theme of why the beautiful mother of Yin Ping married the ugly father. And fictionalized the scene of Yin Ping's father's death and the complex psychology of eleven-year-old Yin Ping. (Because this event is very similar to that of Mizuno Machizhi: a juvenile tryst. Therefore, it is related to. Only this time, Yin Ping hugged Yayoi, but Yin Ping refused Yayoi's request to move to his home. It also tells the story of the Yayoi family, a famous lakeside family, which hints at why Yin Ping's mother married her father. "Yin Ping thinks that there seems to be no change when he lies on the tender grass following Machiichi and hides in the Lespedeza bushes on the bank of Yayoi Village. The same sadness flows in Yin Ping's heart. "

Back to the town branch for a tryst. At the end of the tryst, Yin Ping accosted Mizuno and was condemned. After that, Yin Ping re-entered Kuko's world-a tryst with Kuko through Pink Sunset and Pink Sky. Because I took a taxi to meet Kuko at three o'clock in the afternoon, I felt the sky was pink. (At this time, he was expelled from the school and Kuko changed schools. Therefore, Yin Ping thinks that the world is made up of pink and light blue. "The driver's world is a warm pink world, and the passenger's world is a cold light blue world. The passenger is Yin Ping himself. " I have a tryst with Kuko, and they have a conversation about the confidentiality of love (insert Kuko's girlfriend Eun-tien and her informant). (Here, the author links Miyako with Yin Ping again. The director of Kuko's new school is Miyako's husband Yoda. )

Go back to Yin Ping and follow Medmarch. However, Machiji never appeared in Ginkgo Street to meet Mizuno. When Yin Ping saw in the newspaper that there would be a party to catch fireflies on the moat (a hint), she remembered the firefly attraction-the lake in her mother's hometown, and the game with the yayoi firefly. Because the lightning in his mother's hometown illuminates everything at night, Yin Ping remembered the feeling of touching Kuko's body for the first time (illuminating himself)-Yin Ping was invited by Kuko to steal into her bedroom, and Yin Ping escaped when his parents found out. -Yin Ping accidentally met Kuko for the last time (accompanied by Endian, who was later taken away). This time, Kuko decided not to meet the teacher again. "Teacher, I'm injured and haven't recovered. If I return to normal and am still attached to my teacher, I will go. " Kuko has given in to the pressure. Yin Ping said, "It's so lonely." "Will you remember me?" Kuko muttered "emptiness": "I remember." Yin Ping is still unwilling to leave. He bid farewell to Kuko in the distance: "Goodbye." But Kuko married someone else and lived in the mansion where she once dated Yin Ping. All this, Yin Ping don't know. This part is a comprehensive part, which combines the theme of Yayoi, Miyako, Machimura and Jiuzi in Hometown. The theme of Machimura is line. In the development of the characters, Yin Ping embarked on a complete loneliness and transformation. This is that highlight of the whole novel.

Part IV: Yin Ping-Madge-Children-Women.

Central event: In Tokyo in June, the girl I met at the firefly catching party overnight was chased by the children's phantoms on the earth embankment and had a drink with a woman who took part in accidental amusement. But the events in the novel are not important, what matters is what is revealed from the text and the "thought" and "consciousness" naturally presented from the events. This is to "reveal" the essence of Yin Ping. The climax of the novel is also in this part.

A. Yin Ping is on his way to see fireflies. Imagine the beauty of the town and yearn for yourself. "I want to be a young man with beautiful legs and feet in the afterlife." "What a beautiful girl this world is! You can't turn a girl into that without a good family. And I can only be sixteen or seventeen! "

Yin Ping walks on the moat bridge before the firefly release time (eight o'clock).

Fireflies are released and caught. Yin Ping bought a cage of fireflies (27) and waited for Maidmachi Branch to arrive. Until I found Zhenzhi standing on the moat. (This part of the scene about releasing and catching fireflies is very exciting. Yin Ping eavesdropped on Machiji's conversation with another man: about taking fireflies to visit the patient (another man: Miyako's younger brother, the patient is Mizuno), and about telling Mizuno that they attended the firefly catching meeting together.

B. Yin Ping secretly hung the firefly cage on the belt of Machichi Branch ("meaning missing the girl"), and then walked listlessly to the ramp of Yinxing Street. -the climax of the novel.

Rain falls on the leaves of ginkgo street trees, which reminds me of the lakeshore and Yayoi in my mother's hometown. "There is a firefly cage hanging on the belt of a white skirt to visit my lover. The illusory girl walking on the slope of ginkgo street trees is dripping with illusory rain."

Yin Ping climbed the earth slope, "A baby is climbing with Yin Ping" (illusion), (climbed to the earth embankment, and reached the place where Yin Ping was pushed down after being scolded by Mizuno for the first time with the township party secretary. ) Yin Ping "reminds me of a prostitute in a hot spring area", "Yin Ping's children are not only missing, but also alive and dead. This is also a factor in Yin Pingsheng's restless life. " -Recalling the association with prostitutes in the school days, prostitutes sent their children to Yin Ping, and Yin Ping left them at the back door of an alley and "left cleanly". The reason why he denies the child is that he is not sure whether the child is his own. However, the prostitute sued for money, and Yin Ping and his friend Nishimura went to war. When Nishimura was killed, Yin Ping came back alive and became a school teacher.

Guilty Yin Ping ran to a bright street and became "relaxed and empty", so "his hometown after a long separation emerged" and "he was not thinking about his drowned father, but about his beauty." Then I remembered to see if the baby's feet were ugly.

C. Yin Ping wandered in the street: walked into the slum → walked into the waiting room → got lost into the alley, picked up a woman who took part in accidental amusement → went to the hotel. About ugly feet, about who followed whom, about women whose husbands were killed, their children went to school and then betrayed themselves. Finally, Yin Ping's foot was stoned by a drunken woman. "He went back to the second floor where he lived, took off his socks and saw that his ankle bone was a little red." The whole novel ends here.

As for the person who hooked up with this ugly woman, the author wrote: Yin Ping "thought he was drinking with this real woman to find the girl of his dreams." The uglier this woman is, the better. It seems that the beauty of the town is about to emerge. "

language

Kawabata Yasunari's language has something in common with China's ancient ci and Ming Dynasty's sketches. In particular, the lightness and exquisiteness in his works remind people of the essays of the Ming Dynasty. The feeling of reading is not clear, which may be the artistic depth presented to readers by the master's works. He took his advantage to the extreme, so he became a master.

Both Lake's and Kawabata Yasunari's other works are basically "light" literature, which refers not only to the faint sentimental sentiment (such as graceful style) in his works, but also to his relaxed and elegant "love" language. Reading his novels won't make him feel crowded and complicated, but he will feel relaxed and alienated from the ground, but he has an impulse to entangle his emotions.

In the novel, the feeling of girls' beauty is fascinating (inevitably too obscene); The feeling of the scene is refreshing (it is inevitable that the humidity is too high, which makes readers with rheumatism feel faint and uncomfortable); The feeling of color makes people warm and sad.