On Japanese Contemporary Novels for Men and Women from "Cleft Tongue: Cleft Tongue Ending"

Abstract: Japan has a tradition of lewd literature since ancient times, which shows deep sadness, confusion and despair. This paper attempts to take Cleft Tongue as an example to explore the characteristics of contemporary Japanese male and female novels from both traditional and realistic aspects, so as to understand the nationality of Japan.

Keywords: Pornography and Post-Silent Realism

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Cleft tongue is the first novel of Jin, a Japanese 19-year-old young woman writer. In 2003, he won the 27th Zan Literature Prize in Japan, and in 2004, he won the 130 Akutagawa Prize.

The protagonist of the novel is a rebellious girl of 19 years old. At first, she was fascinated by physical transformation, and finally cut her tongue in half, and then she was fascinated by tattoos. The girl met a young man with a metal ring on his face and a dragon tattoo on his back and was fascinated by his two cracked tongues. Under the temptation of the young man, she also put a ring on her tongue and became obsessed with physical transformation. Under the recommendation of the young man, the girl met another young man who was engaged in physical transformation, and the three of them had a chaotic sexual relationship. The ending of this novel is very confusing. The girl's boyfriend was sexually assaulted to death, but another sex gamer of the girl may sexually assault her boyfriend's physical transformation, but it makes the girl feel warm. The famous writer Ry? Murakami spoke highly of this novel. He thinks the details of rabbit lips are true and impeccable. From the indulgent lifestyle of young people now, I have captured the innocent feelings that occasionally flash. The novel not only constructs a strange and mysterious world, but also profoundly conveys the feelings of women born in this world, and fully shows the rebellious, lonely and lost living state of "New Japan" in post-modern culture. The bold description and gloomy psychological content in his works caused a sensation among readers in China, but it became a best seller in Japan, appreciated by senior scholars, and won the pure literature prize in Japanese literature. This value orientation is completely understandable after we have discussed the following phenomena.

First, the "beauty" and "sadness" of Japanese male and female novels

Japanese literature has been pursuing eroticism since the beginning of traditional stories. Erotic refers to the love between men and women, not love. Refers to the encounter between men and women and the pursuit of sex. The tradition of Japanese erotic literature, it should be said, comes from the opening of the early Yamato national life and the worship of genitals. The origin of Japan in myths and legends is closely related to sex, and there is a mythical description of the origin of Japan's birth in Historical Records. Xie Yi Zener and Isobel are gods of men and women. By God's will, they descended from the sky and saw a pair of love birds kissing. They also learned to kiss. Seeing a couple getting married, encouraged and unable to control themselves, the goddess Xie Yi Zener asked, "How are you?" The goddess Isobo replied: "My body is gradually complete, except for one place that is not closed." Xie Yi Zener said, "I have an extra place in my body, so I will give it to you." Isobo agreed. So the goddess and goddess merged into one, and finally the Japanese archipelago and the gods and eight million gods who dominated the archipelago were born. (2) in the narrative legend, although the description of sex is naked, it is not obscene, but shows nature and realism. Since then, various literary styles in ancient Japan have mostly taken love and sex as their themes, and gradually formed the lascivious aesthetic concept of Japanese literature. Tale of Genji is an outstanding work that laid the foundation for Japanese lascivious literature. This obscenity is not exactly the meaning of pornography in Chinese, and "color" also has the meaning of color and expression, while obscenity contains the combination of body, spirit and beauty, and contains the content that both spirit and flesh are consistent. Lust literature takes love and interest as its important content, explores human feelings and secularity, and grasps the deep meaning of life. Tale of Genji tells the tragic emotional story of the protagonist and many women. It is a sad and sad "emotional novel" in the classic Jing Ya. The whole work is full of a kind of classical Jing Ya and beautiful artistic conception style, which opens the era of "mourning things" in Japan. But this love masterpiece, which still has a far-reaching influence on Japanese literature after more than a thousand years, is a romantic legend of a flower picking genius on the surface. This is the Japanese understanding of aesthetics, the ambiguous separation and unity of love and affection, sex and spirit.

Today, due to economic development and social changes, Japanese literary works have made great progress and changes, but the style of lewdness, material sorrow and realism still exists. Jin's Cleft Tongue seems to be a rebellious novel, with shocking content, involving sex, violence and body deformation. What the author wants to convey, of course, is not to meet the social value standards, but to show this terrible power of emptiness through the narrow living space of such young people. A numb mind can only gain a sense of existence by transforming the pain of the body. But her works are always permeated with Japanese aesthetics-mourning for things. This novel is full of sentimental emotions and sadness of love and sex. After the tattoo was finished, both the tattoo artist and the hero lamented, "Is this another departure of life? The highest realm of Kirin has been stabbed, and I feel nothing to miss. " "My dragon and Kirin scabbed for the last time, which is also the last time. It belongs to me completely. I am always eager to have many desires. But the so-called possession is very sad. " At the end of the novel, it is said that a girl tattooed her body and pierced her tongue just to satisfy her rebellious psychology, but in the end she accelerated the process of "cracking her tongue" because she lost her boyfriend, reflecting her emotional process from numbness to recovery in severe physical pain. Some cutting-edge writers believe that from the cruel description of these people's life appearances, we can see the emotional sadness behind cruelty. Gong Benhui said: "After reading Jin's Cleft Tongue, I suddenly felt that something was left in my heart. So, I read it again, and I felt that her description of the details was very in place, and I also understood what it left me. It is' sadness'. " Chize Xiayue also said that Cracked Tongue was a sad novel as a whole, so she was a little scared. The scene is gorgeous, too. Maybe it's another kind of pure love. However, the author thinks that the novel seems to reveal the sadness of Japanese traditional literary works, while the bold sexual description wanders on the edge of pornographic novels. Novels translated into Chinese can hardly reach the eyes of readers in China after being deleted by translators, and the naked sexual descriptions in the original works can only be regarded as pure literary works by the Japanese.

Second, the outlook on life and death in Japanese literary works

The pursuit of death in Cleft Tongue also embodies another major feature of Japanese novels. Yasunari Kawabata, a Japanese writer who committed suicide after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, said that "death is the origin of Japanese beauty, and the highest realm of art is death". In addition, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Yukio Mishima, Osamu Dazai and other cultural celebrities all have respect and look up to death. They believe that there is no absolute distance between life and death. When the peak of life has passed and there is no expectation for life itself, instead of keeping the body alive, it is better to let the soul return and let the body and mind get eternal sublimation and silence in death. This idea is vividly expressed in the writer's works. There is a description in the novel Cleft Tongue. On the way back from the tattoo parlor, the heroine suddenly felt gloomy. "I strongly hope I don't want to live in this world! I also hope to burn myself in a completely dark world.

Japan is an island country, far from the mainland, and its maritime climate is obvious. Although the climate is humid, there are often sudden typhoons. In late summer and early autumn, typhoons frequently hit Japan, causing great losses to Japanese people's lives and property. What worries the Japanese in particular is that there are many earthquakes and frequent volcanic activities in Japan due to the instability of the "Pacific Rim Fault Zone" across the Japanese archipelago. Even Mount Fuji, which is often depicted in Japanese artistic creation because of its magnificent scenery, is a typical volcanic cone. It can be said that the land under the feet of the Japanese is unstable, so the geographical reasons make the Japanese have an instant sense of life and world outlook, and this nation has its own unique understanding and interpretation of life and death. As a national flower, cherry blossoms have always been loved by the Japanese people, and they also have feelings and implications for the concept of life and death. Cherry blossoms are short-lived. After blooming brilliantly, they suddenly wither overnight. This transcendental decision was appreciated by the Japanese and then became a belief. In the consciousness of life and death of the Japanese nation, they love brevity and value the beauty of the present, and can ignore the passage of time and the end of life.