Study On Watanabe Junichi's Sexual Affection Literature

This study examines, mainly through text analysis, sexual affection literature written by Watanabe Junichi from the perspective of cultural sociology. We attempt to describe the relation between his ideas of sexual affection and women, social charge, and death. Sexual affection of Watanabe literature is our major object. And from all around, a comprehensive and detailed analysis is made on Watanabe Junichi's sexual affection literature, aiming at solving problem presented in the introduction, exploring the essence of Watanabe's sexual affection literature and its original features.Watanabe Junichi is one of the controversial writers in Japanese contemporary literary circles. The modern society has provided the comfortable circumstances and the fertile soil for the Watanabe Junichi's sexual affection literature. It has manifested both the Japanese lascivious literature tradition and the sexual relations of modern society newly in Watanabe Junichi's literature . He caught the confliction between the personal love and the morals or ethics with the power of acute and the impassioned style. He described the bewilderment, the struggle and the selfishness of love-struck people, then he evealed the change of faith of marriage and the crisis of monogamy under the modern society background.Male-dominance, sexual love, beauty and nihility characterize Watanabe Junichi's literature. The basic idea is to deny monogamy. Watanabe asserts that"the true love only exist in extramarital love"and"only by remain unmarried can we realize the unconstrained love."These are the basis for Watanabe's novels. Therefore, middle-aged man's extramarital love is regarded as the essence of true love. Sexual affection in Watanabe's literature suggests that sex is paramount to all others, and its destination tend to be elusive. Sexual affection is used as a symbol of a revolt against marriage and pursuit of celibate. The male characters in his novel are all self-centered, following male chauvinism. Superficially,they appreciate women, love women, but in a deep sense, they disvalue and ignore women. He sees females to be the sexual insterument of males. Since once he practiced as a surgeon, Watanabe has not only obtained the sensual beauty, femininity beauty and moderate Japanese beauty from women, but also shrewdly observed their flexibility, endurance and changeableness. In his novels, we cannot see any of his pity for women as in other writers.Some writers argue that death symbolizes beauty, freedom and transcendence. Precisely speaking, only by death can they obtain perfect love and the union of sexual affection and goodness."Sex, love and death"as constant themes of Japanese literature are also largely reflected in Watanabe's literature. In his works, people kill themselves for love. Their various ways of killing themselves aims to prove that only by committing suicide could they realize true love and show their loyalty, conflict to sexual affection. There is no everlasting love in present life, so they have to be persistent. But as a result, they become emptier and emptier when they are isolated from real society. That is why death and love contradict each other. Watanabe's novels build us a bridge between present and otherworldliness, flesh and spirit, conflicts between worldly and purified life. People in the real life are bound to morality, responsibility and gender orientation, always dreaming of running away from reality and getting liberated. When they try to avoid conventions, public judgments, a seiious of morality, a serious of tragedies are going to happen. They take sexual love as"perfect love"to walk away from temporary and constrained love, but consequently they fall into the trap of reality, then they resort to death to pursue inner love.It shows the limitations in Watanabe Junichi's literature that exaggerate the power of sexual love, and he has not overcome the habitual corrupt practices of the traditional men's rights society when he writes the female counterparts. We can not deny, though it was interpreted as"intermediate literature", it is still popular and controversial, that support the existence of the necessity.