Japanese female writer from the convenience store

Since the 1980s, female writers have shined in the Japanese literary world. They use their unique creative perspectives, changing language, expressing their attention to social realistic issues and thinking about individual life value. The works are frequently selected as major literature Awards lead the trend and direction of Japanese literature. As the Nobel Prize winner of the Literature Award, Dajiang Jianlang said, these female writers are the main forces of "building new novel ideas". As the most representative Japanese female writer at the moment, the work of Murata Sayaka (1979-) has its unique charm. Most Chinese readers' understanding of her starts with her Akutagawa Award -winning work "Earth Convenience Store" (2016).

A "love letter" written to convenience stores

Kukuki Kuang, the protagonist of "Earth Convenience Store", is a "social edge" -the older and unofficial work. Since his college years, she has worked in convenience stores. It is 18 years of work. Gucang loves convenience stores. Only working in convenience stores can make her feel practical. This kind of "love" for convenience stores originated from the ancient warehouse's natural way of thinking and personality. She lacks rejoicing and poor communication. She cannot understand the so -called "social common sense". I feel angry or sad. In order to integrate into the society, she had to reduce self -expression and secretly imitate the words and deeds of others. The convenience store is a magical place to help her successfully become a "normal person", because there are employee manuals in convenience stores. As long as the manual requirements are used to work, act, and speak, work like machine parts step by step, you can integrate into the society without obstacles to the society. Essence However, with the increase of age, when the people around him began to not find full -time jobs or pointers for her, the ancient warehouse tried to propose to reality pressure to seek change. But after many compromises and confusion, she finally gave up camouflage and chose to reconcile with herself.

Ancient Cang Huizi was 36 years old, and in reality, Murata Sayaka was 36 years old when he created the novel. In addition, Murata also worked in the convenience store, and even on the day of the Akutagawa Awards ceremony, she went to work in the store. When the reporter at the scene asked if she would continue to work in a convenience store later, she laughed and answered: "This must discuss with the store manager. If you can, I hope to continue to do it." It is the love letter written by Murada as a convenience store as the author. She wrote: "Everyone said that you are not human, but before you meet you, I am even more likely. At least, I am not good at playing humans to human beings. People. I became a person by your side. "Such an expression made the boundaries between the novel characters Gucang Huizi and the author's boundaries appear ambiguous, so many people regarded this novel as the author based on his own experience. Create private novels to read. In this regard, Murata has clearly stated that "Earth Convenience Stores" are not private novels. The convenience store described in the book is like her ideal convenience store. Gucang Huizi is also a fictional character image. Our nails are cut short "," Hui Zi is strong and does not care about other people's views ... For me, she is a hero. "

Create novels first draw portraits portrait portrait

As a public figure, the public information of Murata Sayaka is very small, so it looks special and mysterious. It can be seen from the limited information that she was born in a traditional and conservative family in Yinxi, Chiba County, and her father is the judge of the local court. In an interview with the British "Guardian" reporter, Murata revealed that her parents hoped that she would receive good education like most Japanese women and would become an excellent housewife in the future. Although she couldn't understand why she had to live like this, she also tried to cater to the expectations of her family and accepted the definition of women in this traditional sense. This attempt not only did not make her live easier, but became the source of her inner contradiction and pain. Writing has become the only way she can express herself and release emotions.

Murata Sayaka University studied at the Department of Literature and Culture at the Department of Literature and Culture at Yichuan University in Japan. In 2003, she won the 46th Award of the Newcomer Literature Award for her debut "Ligging". In 2009, he won the 31st Field Literary and Art Newcomer Award with "Song of Silver". In 2013, with the "White Street, the body temperature of the bones" won the 26th Three Island Yaifu Literature Newcomer Award. In 2014, he won the special award of the 14th Sense of Generate for the Fortune of Gender. In 2016, the Akutagawa Award was first shortlisted. For a period of time after becoming famous, Murata still stayed in convenience stores, and maintained to work at 2 am every day to work at 6 am, 8 am to 1 pm, and continue writing in the cafe after lunch. At 9 pm, at 9 pm, at 9 pm The rules of bedtime. She said that she was accustomed to such a rhythm, and convenience stores allowed her to see all beings and add creative inspiration. It was difficult to write when she was free all day long.

Murata's creation method is also unique, because she has learned painting, so when creating a new work, she often first draws the portrait of the protagonist, and even sets the character's height, weight, hairstyle, residence and other details one by one. Instead, the plot framework does not make presets, so how the story develops and the ending of the end is considered while writing. For example, there is a man named Bai Yu in "Earth Convenience Store". Murata did not intend to portray him as the protagonist at first. Suddenly, the gap in the rest of the convenience store was inspired by inspiration in the brain. important role. This complaint with social rules, but skillfully used the "contempt chain" in the secular society to slander the weak in his eyes, and the rogue of shamelessness. Later, it became a very ironic criticism of the successful shaping of "Convenience Stores in the World". Meaning representative figures. Clouds and wind, light teasing and deconstructing the absurd world

Throughout the village Sayaka's literary world, she can find that she always has experienced experience from her life, but often writes a seemingly realistic but fictional work. She said that her works can be roughly divided into two categories: "SF (Science Fiction) novels" and "Sichun Novels". The background of the "SF Novel" is an overhead world. It seems to tell daily life, but it shows a wonderful sense of absurdity and even thrilling because of the injection of fantasy elements. "Sichun Novels" often use small towns as the background to describe the distress and sexual and desire of adolescent girls. She is good at exploring the "normal" defined by modern society through a different perspective, and is also good at exploring and understanding the world from the "body" and sexual consciousness of women. Most of the heroes in their pen are not suitable for traditional social specifications, and they do not agree with the existing existing existing. Social values ​​and desperately pursue personal values ​​with distinctive souls. These features have also been published in several new works "Earth Star Man" (2018), "Life" (2019), "Moisturizing" (2019), and "Magic Girl Mirakulina" (2020) published by Murata. Continued. Especially in 2021, the "Life Form" of Chinese translations was launched, which included 12 short stories created by Murata ’s 18 -year writer's career, which focused on her creative theme and wonderful imagination of her personal characteristics -death died Later, it was made into a taste of relatives and friends who came to hang up, and mourned the "funeral" of the deceased to be transformed into a "life -style" that enjoyed and created life. Human hair, bones, and skin were made into high -end products. Wear or placed in the home; people respect each other with strange eating habits such as insects; female friends of non -lover relationships borrow sophisticated daughter and accompany the old; Girls who stare at their bodies and eroticism; office workers who secretly eat grass in order to find local tastes in the city; women who try to cater to different people and continue to convert "people"; and so on. All kinds of absurd, weird, upside down, and madly composition of the strange and strange appearance, the author hides the author's jokes of all inherent rules such as human civilization, traditional culture, ethics and morality.

"Is this true, is it correct? Is this normal?" The so -called "correct" is just a rule of human definition. It became "reasonable." Murata Sayaka said: "Normal is the only madness in this world." Use the daily sense of clouds and wind to depict the weird story, and reflect on the rules of the convention in the way of breaking the taboos. Just as she likes to observe the people in front of the cashier in the convenience store, Murata Sayaka has always thought and expresses the world from her unique perspective and literary experience.

(Author is an associate professor at the School of Foreign Language and Culture, South China Normal University)

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

Author: Wang Yu

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