begin this post by listing the serious deficiencies of this writer in his role as bloggers, I failed to comment on political events that occurred recently in brief , I have not given education on the traditional post Christmas spirit, I missed the birthday of this blog (fallen December 19, 2009) and I have not even entertained the beauty of holiday dinners ... There is still time to wish you the New Year, but knowing me, I doubt you will do anyway.
So after this dishonest ablution of conscience, come to the point of this post.
There never believe it, but I finished reading Haru no Yuki ( Spring Snow) by Yukio Mishima.
Yes, I know ... I can hardly comprehend it myself.
However, the novel is the story of young love borghesottemente Kiyoaki young beautiful aspect of nature but by the apathetic and dismissive, son of a samurai family who converted to the status "nouveau-riche" with the Meiji reform, his tumultuous relationship with the absurdly beautiful Satoko, childhood friend and the only daughter of a noble family of Ayakura, the idiosyncrasies of a Japan that thinks that "West is beautiful and manly friendship, intrigues, OH ! How many irons in the fire! Beyond the tragic
soup, cooked in the sumptuous style of nineteenth-century English fiction that both tickles the writing of Mishima, made up of sophisticated terminology and visual evocations of the first order, the cardinal points of an interpretation that goes beyond the mere statement "West vs East "must be found in the reflections of two characters in this novel: the Honda and devoted friend of the severe Gesshu abbess.
no coincidence that Honda is counted among the main characters, although his appearances are few and its role in the case concerning pregnant, but his reflections are crucial in understanding the book.
As aspiring lawyer and son of a judge, Honda spends much time reading legal texts foreign inculcatagli after his father's passion for German law, the young "cool" with her aspirations to study Code of Manu, an ancient text of a political-social Hindu, exhibited under the form of a dialogue between the demigod and a group of wise men.
I will not dwell on the contents of the Code of Manu because I know what you, I would simply point out what it takes Honda, and therefore the same author, in book itself.
The comparison is with the Roman law, or at least Western Europe, and these "laws characterized by spontaneity remarkable: while the Western system of thought nags at the correspondences between microcsmo / macrocosm, Manu suggests a more unified than the mere general / particular, indicating substance as a unifying concept of the transmigration of souls : the reason the man has very little power compared to the cosmic laws inaccessible (I refer to my post on The Phoenix Tezuka for further comparison) governed by the divine, where the God is a concept quite alien to human nature, although it is enlivened daily .
The man who could hold off the floor, the body and mind in relation to any living being, the man who can curb his desires and his anger, will arrive to the full achievement of himself. He will compete full liberation. "
The reason West is here replaced by a more straightforward concept of obedience East. This does not necessarily mean stifling their individuality (as does paradoxically Kiyoaki in denying his feelings), but basically" surrender "in front of the inexplicability of certain events (such as Honda not ago in search of an explanation) and follow the law to prevent infections at least karmic. Where
Honda fantastic and charms us with its deep discussions but naive, the abbess suffocates us with anecdotes and information there and then disconnected from the context of the plot, but fiercely lashed to the corpus of metaphorical novel of the tetralogy.
His first action is to the parable of Yuan Hsiao and bevutina night from a human skull, unconscious of the fact that his cup was a human skull and a delicious drink when thirsty solace that night the water to its ristagnatasi Internal once shewn morning under the eyes and having the body of the crime, the poor Yuan could not help but feel sick and vomit.
The self-consciousness is reported in Buddhism as the first instrument of knowledge and at the same time the lowest and misleading: the desire to have its bases, and distinctions made in achieving that, and when this self-consciousness is suppressed, we can be content to drink water from a stale skull, and make it even pleasure. The disgust in fact stems from the awareness that the skull belongs to a corpse, not to the legality of container.
The second presentation of the Abbess appears in the final at the last hearing on this Kiyoaki granted Honda / Satoko, took the opportunity to intoxicate a demoralized Honda with a dissertation on the concept of randomness according to the doctrine Hossu. The abbess
speaks of ' Alaya , which shares the status of "form of knowledge" with self-consciousness, or Mana, but part of a much higher level of perception and mysterious, which is found in the concept of "duration".
The Alaya is compared to a river that flows continuously, and its interaction with such an Act of Pollution (do not ask what it is ... It is a fact that seems to have the power to "interrupt" the flow dell'Alaya creating concept of "time") means the emergence of "micro" in the "network of Indra" (the inevitable fate of men) are identifiable as "random" in that particular "moment exists" just formed.
is then that the destiny of man is a continuous crack and scattered, but a piece of wire that make up the network that binds the strong man in his rope.
do not think it a coincidence that Mishima has to review these figures very closely.
In the first case of the parable of the skull is a daydream and let Honda intrigued by his message, trying to involve his friend lost in many other pressing problems (and is also funny that the player himself is more fascinated by the crowds of Kiyoaki rather that the reflections of Honda - To the detriment of the message of the book, of course), while the second is one of a kind of "intellectual epilogue of the book, where Honda's devotion and care for Kiyoaki Satoko is the abbess to give final battle - and obviously wins, "the lawyer" whose client is more "pure", the Abbess, who drives a Honda but a perfunctory task treat.
Rereading the book in this light, we see how these issues are significant and distinctive in the life of the characters: the protagonist, Kiyoaki, lives her life full of whim, only to be embroiled in these "innocent desires" that grant finally a "true happiness" to his being but also led to final defeat because of his stubbornness and selfishness of all too pronounced ... Many small microfractures in the natural course of things (love for Satoko) will lead the young to be the fate it deserves, but also makes him conscious of a thing, its next incarnation, which makes it readily share Honda's friend during the febrile delirium.
Taking apart I want to dedicate it to the title of the book, the highlights of life occur during the life of Kiyoaki spring snowfall (specifically, in the month of February).
In the first, Satoko Kiyoaki grant a meeting in a carriage, where young people exchange a passionate kiss as deep, marking the beginning of their relationship from the point of view happily carnal.
In the second, dragging Kiyoaki feverish Gesshu of the monastery in the hope of being able to meet Satoko, but getting total and absolute rubbish. What are these
snowfall - Perhaps the interaction between Alaya and Law of Pollution, or perhaps something more visceral and profound? In both cases, Kiyoaki is driven by a vital force and a passion hitherto unknown to him, a determination that almost touches the reader.
The back cover of the book edition Italic states "The ice mantle of snow in a pure form transient profound evil of life" .
The choice of this phrase "profound evil of life" is rather unique, and opens the question itself. There is indeed something fundamentally wrong with the living? Or what Mishima wants to condemn here is really just a "certain" way of life ..?
- All 'author notes in the back cover will judge!
I close this post with a mini-gem, a "summary" of a 2005 film based on his book by Mishima, it is interesting to see the characters, the icy beauty of Satoko and delicious gakuran of Kiyoaki and Honda squeee *! *
course, the footage is focused on the romantic side of things, but everything is still very nice ...
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