Research On The Hometown Reconstruction And Writing In Kobo Abe’s Novels

Kobo Abe,known as the "flag-bearer of the post-war school," is one of the most influential writers in post-war.He has become one of the most influential writers in modern Japanese literature worldwide for his avant-garde style of writing that rejects traditional Japanese writing.Abe Kobo is a Japanese writer who grew up in Northeast China,Tokyo is his birthplace.However,Abe Kobo had lived with his parents in Shenyang,Liaoning Province since he was under one year old.At that time,Shenyang was called Fengtian.Kobo Abe lived in Shenyang for nearly seventeen years,and the city became his"homeland".After the Second World War,when Japan was defeated,Kobo Abe followed the Japanese expatriates to Northeast China and withdrew to Japan,thus leaving pseudo-Manchuria behind.Growing up in Shenyang and being forced to leave his homeland made the question of "where is my hometown" a lifelong stumbling block for Kobo Abe.Thus,Kobo Abe called himself "a man without a hometown".The two novels,The End of the Road and The Beasts are Heading Home,which are written directly from the "Manchurian" experience,show the writer’s hidden nostalgia and sadness after the loss of his homeland and are the writer’s first thoughts on the issue of the homeland.In the 1960s,the publication of the "The Trilogy of The Missing"(The Woman in the Dunes,The Face of Another and The Ruined Map)marked the maturity of Kobo Abe’s novels,in which he began to think more deeply about his homeland.Taking Kobo Abe’s thinking and answer to the hometown problem as the starting point,this paper discusses the novel creation of Kobo Abe from the three aspects of Kobo Abe’s memory,reconstruction,and writing,to interpret Kobo Abe’s cognition of the hometown problem and his cultural identity.This paper consists of an introduction,four chapters and a conclusion.The introductory chapter introduces the life and fiction of Kobo Abe,the current status of domestic and international research on this topic,the significance of this topic,and the research routine.The first chapter deals with Kobo Abe’s hometown scenes and memories of his hometown.Taking the homeland as the primary material of hometown reminiscence starts with Shenyang’s geography and historical landscape,the writer’s hometown.It restores the living environment of the Fengtian Manchurian Railway subsidiary when Kobo Abe lived there and discusses the possibility of reconstructing his hometown from the writer’s reminiscence of his hometown.The second chapter mainly analyzes the performance of hometown reconstruction in creating Kobo Abe’s public housing novels.This chapter argues that in the creation of the novels,Kobo Abe projected himself on the characters and realized the pursuit of his hometown by reconstructing his identity.He also used his hometown Shenyang as a copy to reconstruct the environment of his hometown.The third chapter mainly analyzes the characteristics of hometown writing in the creation of Kobo Abe’s novels.This chapter explores the anti-ritualized writing performance of characters based on the writing of the hometown of Kobo Abe and the spatial writing strategy that uses rubbing and extension as methods.The forth chapter explores the issue of hometown perception and cultural identity of Kobo Abe,looking at both the writer’s Japanese experience and his position as a post-war writer,and analyzes the spiritual roots and changes in Kobo Abe’s mentality in reconstructing and writing about his hometown.The concluding section summarizes the whole text and proposes directions and expectations for the continued exploration of the issues in this paper.