The famous novel Dancer of Izu (1926) describes the miserable life of a high school student and a tramp. The representative work Snow Country (1935 ~ 1937) describes the physical and mental purity and beauty of women at the bottom of the snow country, as well as the writer's deep sense of nothingness. Other works include Red Flower of Asakusa (1929 ~ 1930), Crystal Fantasy (193 1) and Thousand Cranes (1949 ~1). Yasunari Kawabata served as the vice president of the International PEN and the president of the Japanese PEN. 1957 was elected as a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts. He was awarded the Cultural Medal of the Japanese Government and the Cultural and Art Medal of the French Government. 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature. 1972 committed suicide in the studio. Many works have been translated and published in China.
Kenzaburo Oe (193s I) is a famous Japanese writer after the war. Born in Daxi Village, Xiduo County, Ehime Prefecture. This is an isolated mountain village, surrounded by forests and valleys, almost cut off from the outside world. Later, many of Okada's novels took this mountain village as the stage. This situation in my hometown has a profound influence on DJI literature. When he was in primary school, World War II began and his father died at that time. He was 1945 years old when Japanese imperialism surrendered. Japan took over the sovereignty in the year of entering middle school.
People, give up the new constitution with war as the main content. It was from this time that Kenzaburo Oe embarked on the post-war democratic road. However, when he was a freshman, the United States launched a war of aggression against North Korea, and his democratic thoughts began to hit a wall in reality. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the liberal arts department of Tokyo University. At this time, he met Japanese cadres. During his college years, he wrote plays and participated in drama activities for students' progress. 1956 transferred to the French Literature Department of Neusoft University in April, and became interested in Sartre's existentialism and symbolism in Europe and America. This is reflected in his novels published at that time. For example, in May 1957, New Service of Tokyo University published Wonderful Flowers, and in August of the same year, Literature World magazine published Luxury of the Dead, soaking dead bodies in a sink, symbolizing the blockade of people and the obstacle to the future. Since then, Kenzaburo Oe has published a series of novels with the theme of pursuing freedom under the blockade. In this kind of novels, the author points out that resistance is valuable even if it is ineffective. 1In June, 958, the original novel "Stripping Buds and Having Children" was published in Group Image magazine. Taking the remote mountain village in wartime as the stage, the novel reveals the children's mentality of looking forward to the early end of the war in the juvenile reformatory. 1Feeding, published in March, 958, is a work of the same theme and won the Akutagawa Prize for Literature. In addition, some novels describe the mental imprisonment of the younger generation under the post-war occupation situation, revealing strong dissatisfaction with the American occupation authorities, such as the novel People's Sheep. 1960 After the Japanese people launched the struggle against the Japan-US security treaty, the ideological content of Kensaburo Oe's novels was further strengthened. The novels "The Death of a Young Politician" and "Seven o'clock" set against the background of the assassination of Japanese Socialist Party Chairman Inajiro stabbed the right-wing forces in Japan, so the writers were threatened. In addition, there are Strong Will under Power (196 1), Late Youth (1962), Scream (1962) and Hiroshima Diary (1964). Kenzaburo Oe Another kind of novel is about sex, such as 1959 Our Times published by the Central Public Clinic. Kenzaburo Oe visited China in 1960, went to the Soviet Union and Europe in196/0/and traveled to the United States in 1965. In the early 1980s, all the works of Kenzaburo Oe, including papers, had reached 12 volumes. The novel Personal Experience was published by Xinchao Society on August 1964.
Junichi Watanabe, 1933 was born in Hokkaido, graduated from sapporo medical university, and was a surgeon with a doctor's degree before engaging in literary creation. Since 1950, Junichi Watanabe has often published his works in fan magazines. 1965 wrote a psychoanalytic novel "Make-up" in the first person and won the "New Magazine Award". 1969, another novel, Light and Shadow, won him the Naoki Literature Award. The two soldiers in the novel experienced completely different fates because of the wrong medical records. The success of this novel gave Watanabe great confidence. He gave up medicine and devoted himself to writing. Junichi Watanabe's works in this period are closely related to the theme of life and death, describing the ups and downs of fate, and are usually called "medical novels".
1980, Junichi Watanabe's biography of world-class bacteriologist Hideki Noguchi won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize in Literature. This work is praised by the world for its informative textual research and writing skills.
Junichi Watanabe has published more than 50 works, and still insists on writing, showing extraordinary talent and rich creative strength, and has a wide and lasting audience in Japan. Japanese media called him "the first person in Chinese literature", "the spokesman of modern people" and "the master of Japanese modern love literature". All the concerns or comments, praises or controversies actually come down to his series of novels that show the emotional entanglements of middle-aged people.
Haruki Murakami was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan on 1949. He graduated from the drama department of Waseda University. 1979 won the Japanese group portrait newcomer award for his first novel, Listening to the Wind. The work "Norwegian Forest", which won Nohiko Award and Tanizaki Junichiro Award, has sold more than 7 million copies so far, and the author has become the best-selling writer in Japan. Haruki Murakami translated novels by Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Selok, john irving and Raymond Chandler, and served as a guest lecturer at Princeton University and Tufts University in 1990s.