Comment On The Artistic Features Of Watanabe Junichi’s Works

Watanabe Junichi is one of the famous writers of the “novel in the middle”in Japanese contemporary scene. He created a lot of middle-aged groups extramaritalaffairs as the theme of "men and women fiction", described the real humanity underthe conflicts of family responsibilities and love affairs in the modern city in Japan,analyzed the spiritual emptiness, frustration and uncertainty of people of the moderncity after the great to meet the material, showed the conflicts between the humanityand civilized society ethics, expressed criticism and resistance of the existing rigidsocial system.Watanabe Junichi inherited the tradition of Japanese literature in artistictechniques of the novel creation. This paper attempts to use the theory of narrationand the theory of image with the Watanabe’s specific works to take a macro overallgrasp from an artistic level in the art of narration, character setting, death ofperformance of his works. In respect of narrative art, Watanabe applies linearnarrative structure to start writing in the middle or at the climax of the story, first towrite the heroes’ falling in love, and then simply supplementary narrative theirmeeting and knowing. In addition, Watanabe usually arranges two or three light anddark intertwined clues, to clearly demonstrated the heroes’ love triangle or theircomplex emotional situation inside and outside the marriage.On the narrative point ofview, he combines the description of the omniscience and limited-narration of thehero’s eyesight as narrative strategy, to make the works more authenticity andcredibility. In respect of character setting, Watanabe shapes numerous image ofwomen and two different types image of men in his literary world. The women aregraceful, restrained, cautious, temperance and not play with a strong self-conscious.One class of men is middle-aged with a strong“Breeding Complex”, one is“Instrumental Rationality” male image repressed and twisted by moderncivilization. In addition, the unique deaths performance is a major feature ofWatanabe literature. Many works of Watanabe are related to the theme of death, but hetreats the performance of death specially. He well-designed his heroes’ perfectceremony of initiative death in the magnificent natural scenes, with materialism,physical view of death and Japanese “Forest Complex” for the purpose. WatanabeJunichi not only inherited the tradition of “lust” and “beautiful” in traditional literature, but also integrated into the modern factors and flavor of the times. Hefurther expands the position of “middle literature”, weakens the boundaries of pureliterature and popular literature, re-examines the relationship between people from anew angle of view of extramarital love, use aesthetic love as a survival strategyagainst the modern repression and break through the modern vulgar life.