Woman In The Dunes Of Kobo Abe

Kobo Abe(1924~1993)is a representative of the postwar Japanese writers.His works are deeply influenced by the Western modernism such as existentialism and surrealism.They always show concern for the human condition,and they are often novel and pioneering.The artistic techniques set up bizarre scenes,expressed profound morals through absurd story lines,exposed the irrationality of human existence.Those works thought about the way humanity survives in the new era,and has a strong purpose in attempting to explore a new way out of loneliness and the anxious survival dilemma.They are pushing the Japanese existential literature to a new stage.Mr.Oedaburo once spoke highly of him: “If Mr.Abe is still alive,the award for this(Nobel Prize in literature)is definitely his,not mine.”The theme of existentialism,which focuses on people and values people in Abe's works,has remained unchanged.The search for attribution has always permeated the literary creation.We can see from the works of various periods of Abe,which illustrate the deeper and deeper pursuit of attribution,that is,from simple substance attribution to spiritual attribution to spiritual ownership.The Woman in the Dunes is a masterpiece of the creation and transition period of Abe.He shifts the sights from the grand and abstract themes of the country,the nation,and the control of people to people,to the specific life of the contemporary urban people.Not only has he described the situation of the general situation of people,but also characterize the implied absurdity,further deepen the topic,focus on the issue of how the individual exists in the urban environment,and try to find a way out of the predicament and possibilities for modern people in difficult circumstances.This book provides people with worldview and methodological guidance.The protagonist Ren Mu Shunping of the Woman in the Dunes took seeking as his motive and launched the storyline with the behavioral model of “running away ”.This also reflected the consistent theme of creation of Abe: the subjectivity of the unwillingness to be buried in the external world.Strive to break the shackles of the original community and courageously explore the meaning of self-existence and the way people live."Fleeing" embodies the ambivalence of the hero who wants to get rid of the shackles of the established social order and is afraid of being alienated by the social community.However,in the constant struggle with the sand,as the protagonist's understanding of the sand continues to be three-dimensional,there is also the essence of the world.A soberer understanding is that from the perspectives of economic existence,social rules,and collective values,there is essentially no difference between the sand hole and the outside world.The sand hole is merely a projection of a simplistic and extreme external world.Humanity cannot escape but to face the crisis of survival.The invention of the water storage device was a sign that he changed the objective living environment,which let him realize that only by working hard to create a new living space in order to achieve self-transcendence.So he chose to return to the sand hole.Kobo Abe set the limit living environment,and analyzed the process of ideological change by tracking the changing trajectory of the protagonist's behavioral model.He made breakthroughs for those who are deeply trapped in the predicament,indicating that they are clearly aware of the predicament of modern people.On these basis of facts,we use human plasticity to make selfselection and exert people's subjective initiative to work hard in order to change the various relationships of reality,find self-identity,recognize repetition in repetitions,and then know themselves in repetitions to create new living spaces and to achieve self-transcendence.