Ogawakensanro And Sartre's Existentialism

Ogawakensanro has started to produce his works from learning Sartre's existentialism. His reference to the existentialism is transformed from accepting to actively digesting and further to surpassing. According to this transformation, we can divide Ogawa's creation into three stages, i.e., the early stage when he was studying at Tokyo University during 1956-1958, the middle stage during 1959-1963 and the later stage after 1964.His early works mainly imitates Sartre's existentialism, describing the absurd life that people lead under the closed environment. In the actual closed society with the block of "wall" everywhere, people are always left high and dry and it is a fruitless effort to try to break through the "wall". Ogawa's works in this stage evidently reveal the affection of pessimism and nothingness.After graduation from the university, Ogawa came to the true life and started to form a deep understanding about the social reality. Meanwhile, he began his creation of the middle stage, which takes sex as the main line to represent the pessimistic and decadent life of modern people especially present Japanese young people. Ogawa's description of sex is not that simple nature of people, but has profound social meaning. Through the abnormal sexual behavior and sex adventure, his works reflect that contemporary people are extremely dissimilated by the industrial civilization. Under these circumstances, people strive to get rid of the inhibition and trammels of the society and express their individual existence in the society. From that we can see Ogawa's works in this stage have strong criticism on the society.In 1963, the birth of his disabled son together with his visit to Hiroshima, the city suffering from the nuclear weapon for the first time, speeded up the change of Ogawa's creation. His personal misfortune mingled with the sufferings of human beings, which made Ogawa get a new understanding of people and the world. "Personal Experience " (1964) was produced in such a case and Ogawa's works came to its later stage since then. In this stage, Ogawa devoted to representing people's fight against the society and personal misfortune with his works, which have more positive significance. In the work, Ogawa's surpass over Sartre's existentialism can be seen from the surpass of free choice over minimalism situation, the intervention of mysticism and Ogawa's lofty humanism thoughts.