Rashomon is a book written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa [Japan]. The following are five articles about reading Rashomon that I collected for you. Please refer to them.
after reading rashomon-
wrote a book review | wrote a book review | the story is actually quite absurd.
the five senses in "yam porridge" are a sad person. He lives in a humble and undignified way. All I want in my life is to eat a full meal of yam porridge, but when I can really eat it, I have trepidation. Seems to have lost the meaning of dragging out an ignoble existence for many years.
in hell, actually, I don't understand who forced the little maid to die. Her father is a wizard, but he is not lovable and paranoid. It's shocking to be paranoid. He can sacrifice his daughter and himself for the sake of faith and joy in his heart.
neither of these two characters lives for themselves. It is also sad.
"Nose" He changed because it was unusual, but he was ridiculed because it became ordinary after the change.
"The River Boy" really describes a unique world that is related to life everywhere. Akutagawa Ryunosuke said that satirists are pessimists and will eventually go crazy because they can't find the beauty of the world. The whole story probably tells this sentence. Interlaced with short stories, glass manufacturers manipulate politicians, politicians manipulate the media, media manipulate public opinion, and public opinion manipulates people.
If the words of a dwarf are short stories. This is a pure sentence. It's just that these sentences have been refined by Akutagawa Ryunosuke on life, art, religion, literature, novelists and so on. This reminds me of Calvino. Not so much a novelist as a fable. The human nature and life revealed by their works? To tell the truth, at my age, I can't feel the mystery well by reading these books.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa's works are deeply influenced by China's literature and art. He quoted the words of China poets and writers in many places. Of course, he also quoted many other countries. Only when the word China appears in foreign works, there will be a sense of pride.
don't talk about words that look exquisite but have no personal feelings. From the perspective of layout and structure, I really don't like the form of "The Dwarf's Words". It's like a collection of languages from "sorry". Because the article is obviously a topic, there are many "you" to isolate it from each other. This kind of feeling that you can't spit it out in one breath, but you have to feel it intermittently, not to mention how bad it is.
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa said that he likes some writers very much. I can feel the writer's mind and heart in my works, but I can't fully feel it, and there are always some parts missing.
I mean, you too.
What a philosophical sentence, except the last one. If you say a few more words, I will really be enlightened. Of course, it may be that my own experience is limited and I can't feel the exquisiteness of his concise language.
second thoughts on reading rashomon
first, it may be necessary to explain the background. Several stories in the book took place in the era of Ping An Jing, and Rashomon (that is, Luocheng Gate) was a city gate at the southern end of Suzaku Avenue leading to the north and south in the central part of Ping An Jing. Ping An Jing is now Kyoto. Peaceful Beijing, where the imperial power lies, is peaceful and stable. It's beautiful to think about it. However, several stories in this book tell us that Ping 'an Beijing was also a turbulent time, during which people were poor and their lives were thinner than paper. What happened in this era? In Rashomon, a famous scholar will lose his job, and he has no way out. If he wants to survive, he can only become a robber. At the moment, his heart is struggling. To be or not to be? This is a problem. Reading "In the Bamboo Forest" twice in one breath is not enough. It simply describes the species of human nature to the extreme. The same story is actually different from different people. What is the truth? Who is the murderer? "Hell Change" is a screen, but it doesn't show dignitaries and crowing, but the door of hell is wide open, and the red-violet fire devours all people and things, and no one is spared. In addition, it also mentioned the nocturnal travel of ghosts. In the former Kyoto, the whole road was empty at night. At this time, many strange monsters would appear in droves and walk on the road, which was called "Ghost Night Walk". Privately, I think that the essence of ghosts' nocturnal travel may be robbers dressed as ghosts. They may be the servants who are forced to make a living in Rashomon. In order to survive, they become spectres, killing people and stealing goods. By the way, there was also a famous teacher of Yin and Yang, Abe Seiming, in the era of Ping An Jing (students who don't know much about it can refer to Baku Yumemakura's series of books on Yin and Yang, or movies of the same name). In an era full of ghosts, gods and monsters, it is not easy for ordinary people to survive, and what do they dare to expect? Put down the book and be filled with emotion. Inadvertently, I remembered what my mother, who used to be a soldier, said: Son, you have caught up with a good era.
Three thoughts after reading Rashomon
Rashomon was written in Akutagawa Ryunosuke's pessimistic mood. At that time, he fell in love with Yayoi Yoshida, but he was opposed by his adoptive parents. Although his aunt was rich and unmarried all her life, she raised and cared for Ryunosuke like a biological mother, but it was inevitable that she would hurt each other because of love. Akutagawa even once said to the writer Haruko Sato: "It was XXX that caused my life's misfortune. She is still my only benefactor. "
In the face of the ups and downs of his life due to lack of family and unsatisfactory love, he formed a personality of forbearance and depression, and he was burdened with mental burdens all his life. Before he died, he wrote in his suicide note to his best friend Takaichi Xiaoxue: "I am an adopted son. In the adoptive father's family, I have never said anything willful and done anything willful (it is more appropriate to say that I can't say or do it rather than say or do it). ? Now, suicide is imminent. Maybe this is the only wayward thing in my life. Like all young people, I had a dream, but now it seems that I am the son of a madman. " It can be seen that Ryunosuke's vision of the world is gloomy. Throughout his life, he has been crazy about his biological mother and worried about his adopted son status. Therefore, his works show his anxiety and distress about survival and are shrouded in an atmosphere of sadness and terror.
The story of Rashomon takes place in the late period of heian period, and it is set in the gate house of Luocheng. At that time, the martial forces of the shogunate rose, the royal family became weaker and weaker, and the war in Japan spread. In addition, civil earthquakes, typhoons, fires and famines occurred frequently, and the Rashomon was ruined. A servant who was driven out of his employer took shelter from the rain and was worried about his future, and he didn't know where to go from here. Perhaps abandoning the status of a samurai and becoming an outlaw, "there is no way out except to be a robber." Regardless of the future, where to stay tonight is a problem, so I want to spend the night on the Rashomon Gate. At that time, when people were starving everywhere, Rashomon had become a place to throw away the bodies without owners at random, and Ding Shen stepped on the stairs, which inevitably made him nervous. Who just went upstairs to see the flames wandering, found a shadow shaking, heart suddenly hair, you see, it is an old woman, is pulling a woman's hair, ready to sell it. Who was angry and accused the old woman, but the other side retorted that the dead woman had lied to make a living by pretending snake meat to be fish, which deserved it. Who despair in the heart, on second thought, everyone in order to survive, so put the old woman down, stripped clothes to sell.
This novel is full of gloom and ugliness. In a short story of 3, words, everyone is a villain, with no conscience. Social unrest leads to everyone feeling insecure, landlords go bankrupt, warriors wander, the law of the jungle prevails, and there is hunger everywhere. Don't talk about the countryside, even the streets that have always been prosperous have become gloomy cemeteries with dense bones. Due to years of war, corpses are everywhere, and after years of accumulation and decay, they appear desolate and gloomy, giving people the impression of being eerie and haunted.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke has many works that tend to or indirectly expose the ugly side of social humanity, such as Nose and Bamboo Forest. It is well known that Ryunosuke is a famous author, but when he was writing Rashomon, he was only a nameless person. Life is down and out, emotional double whammy, inherited crazy personality, all of which enable him to explore and see more in loneliness.
A series of short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa are included in many domestic translations, such as Rashomon published by Times Literature and Art Publishing House, which includes more than 2 novels such as Yam Porridge, Huangliangmeng and Hero's Weapon. Akutagawa's creative forms are rich in content, such as the famous nose in the early stage, the world famous work in the bamboo forest in the later stage, Rashomon, which exposes the selfish nature of human beings, Death of a Christian, which shows www.simayi.net's selfless spirit of human nature, the hero's weapon, which is based on China's history and full of dialectical thinking, and the water of the great river, which is full of Japanese flavor and beauty, exposes egoism and romanticism. I can also appreciate the coquettish features of the Japanese short story "Ghost Tale".
On the other hand, due to my shallow knowledge, I have read more works by modern Japanese writers such as Haruki Murakami and Keigo Higashino, from which I can learn more about the experiences and feelings of Japanese island countries in modern times. However, in Akutagawa Ryunosuke's era, China was still under the rule of the feudal dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and its culture was magnificent, which obviously had a deep influence on neighboring small countries. At this time, Ryunosuke's novels mentioned the history of China many times. For example, in "Joking Samadhi", the hero writer Ma Qinlong Zesuoji was praised as "Luo Guanzhong of Japan" and mentioned "Water Margin" many times, in which he was familiar with the well-known excerpts of Lin Jiaotou's Fengxue Mountain Temple, and even the poem "Eating with the sound of the rock nests under the sky" by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Moqi. "The Hero's Weapon" describes the history of Xiang Yu's Wujiang River committing suicide. By Liu Bang's mouth, he said, "(Xiang Yu) is really the hero of the world!" The list goes on and on, showing Japan's preference for the "Han style" of crossing the ocean, from which we can see the strength of China's 5,-year cultural output, leaving an indelible mark on world culture.
thoughts on reading rashomon iv
the first time I read modern Japanese literary works, it may be due to cultural differences, so it is difficult to understand. However, the word "difficult to understand" can't be expressed unless it is personally tasted. In a joke, I know every word written by the author, but I don't understand it when combined. Perhaps this is the greatest charm of words, which are combined in thousands of ways, producing ideological * * * sounds across time and space. Once again, this is the most incomprehensible novel I have ever read, and maybe I will reread it when my experience is reached.
I got to know the author as usual before reading, and I was awed to see that the author died of suicide at the age of 35. Lonely, at a loss, cold, angry, helpless and funny, every story has unspeakable feelings from the beginning to the end. There is a deeper hell after hell, and there are other doors after Rashomon, which never ends. There are admiration, singing, ignorance and regret, but we can only walk among all beings.
The book contains many stories, among which personal favorites are Rashomon, Hell Change, River Boy and Bamboo Forest. The last one was made into a movie Rashomon by Kurosawa. Then, come and read it next time.
Five thoughts after reading Rashomon
After reading Rashomon, I couldn't help but fall in love with this kind of film that pays attention to human nature and digs into its essence. When I think of China's magnificent commercial films, although the domestic box office is good, many people say that it is difficult to feel the touching brilliance of human nature. No wonder they are always disappointed at the international film festivals such as Oscar and Venice. Since the 78th Academy Awards nominated Brokeback Mountain, Crash, Capote, Good Night, Good Luck and Munich as the best film candidates, Oscar's call for "humanity" has been extremely clear, and it has almost become a well-known secret that movies will move closer to "humanity" if they want to win an Oscar. Personally, I think there is no lack of humanization in China's current films, but they are a little vague, even commercialized, and even lose the most moving power, and the audience doesn't buy it.
Returning to Rashomon, people in it praise themselves or belittle others in order to comfort their hearts and meet their psychological needs, so as to improve themselves, push themselves to a higher level and tell the truth that they subconsciously think is right. In order to cover up their cowardice and mediocre skills after being scolded by women, robbers hide their cowardice and arrogance, and women make up one lie after another to cover up their sin of losing their virginity. The handyman said, "Everyone thinks he is honest, and takes what is suitable for him as the truth, and forgets what is not suitable for him, so that he can feel comfortable." This is what everyone has done, and they have tried to correct their mistakes in their minds and justify themselves.
we can't directly sentence this kind of behavior to death, because it is one of human characteristics? It's just an act of deception. To put it bluntly, it's a lie. From the point of view of motivation, this kind of lying belongs to passive deception, which is realized in order to protect oneself. It is an instinct and a survival law of human beings. From this perspective, lying is right and wrong. It is a natural thing for everyone to safeguard his own interests. Lying itself is tragic, and liars are even more pitiful. To hate losing faith in the human soul is to forget that these liars are instinctive, tragic in themselves and need God's mercy. In the end, "people can still be trusted" is the return of human nature, that is, truth, goodness and beauty have defeated human instinct, and evolved from primitive freewheeling to the discovery of conscience in civilized times. The film ended beautifully after the rain, and people regained the power of progress in the affirmation of "people can still trust people", sweeping away the fear of human nature at the beginning of the film.
This film seems to be suspenseful and complicated, but as long as you grasp the clues and follow the map, you will be suddenly enlightened. Exposing human nature to the jungle, and letting the sunlight passing through the bamboo leaves mercilessly whip the wounds of human nature, people can't bear to look straight, but they can't help but think about themselves. Do we have to severely reprimand the poor liars and not give them a chance to mend their ways?