Paradise Lost is a novel written by Japanese novelist Junichi Watanabe, which tells the story of a middle-aged man and a woman who were both killed by an extramarital affair.
Introduction:
The p>55-year-old hero Jiumu and the 38-year-old heroine Linzi have their own families, and they met a few months ago. At that time, Kumi had just stepped down from the position of publishing minister of a big publishing house, and Rinzi was temporarily teaching calligraphy in a cultural center. Jiumu appreciates the elegant temperament and beauty of Rinzi's dignified calligraphy, while Rinzi is moved by Jiumu's "childish taste with depression".
after frequent contacts, they finally walked into the hotel together.
Later, Jiumu's wife urged him to sign the divorce papers several times, and the publishing house informed him that he would be transferred to a subordinate branch while showing a vicious tip-off letter.
Rinzi's husband punishes her by refusing to divorce, and her mother should sever the mother-daughter relationship with her. Finally, Jiumu left his house and savings, only a bag of autumn sweaters to bid farewell to his wife and daughter, and walked leisurely to the last stop of his life with Rinzi, and committed suicide by embracing poison in a villa hotel.
The two wrote in their suicide note to "everyone": "Forgive us for going our own way in the end, and please bury us together."
Paradise Lost won the Kikuchi Hiroshi Award in Japan in 23.
Paradise Lost caused a great sensation in Japanese literary circles after it was published in 1997. Then Paradise Lost was also translated into many languages.
Extended information
1. Author's brief introduction
Junichi Watanabe, male, Japanese
Japanese physician and novelist
Born in Shachuan, Hokkaido, Japan on October 24, 1933, died in Tokyo, Japan on April 3, 214 at the age of 8.
Second, creative inspiration
The author once said frankly: "I was in love when I wrote the novel Paradise Lost, so this novel is the product of interweaving dreams and reality, and the love I experienced in the past, as well as the music and scenes I heard at that time, made me enter an irresistible state of love and immerse myself in it."
Watanabe admits his creative motivation: "The reason why I want to write Paradise Lost is because I have a deep sense of crisis. I think that contrary to the high civilization of modern society, we humans are still animals after all, no different from other creatures on the earth, and we are all composed of females and males. Unfortunately, we have lost this most basic understanding."
Third, the theme of the work
Junichi Watanabe's views on love in Paradise Lost mainly include:
1. Young people's love is pure, but middle-aged people will have various complicated relationships and roles in society, and they can still get love with various burdens, which is more pure.
2. With the deepening of spiritual love, the love of the body will inevitably deepen, and the deepening of physical love will in turn promote the sublimation of spiritual love.
3. Two people are deeply in love from the bottom of their hearts and can't extricate themselves, but when love reaches the absolute exclusive level, it will inevitably destroy this love and eventually lead to death.
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