王蒙：最美的愛情在小說裡

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只是想像一位愛情小說作者祈禱 "神啊，能不能讓我少理性一些，再感性一些" 。
理性影響小說的劇情、節奏、角色設計，丟了作品也就毀掉一半了；
而感性本身都是在的吧，只是收放與培養情緒。該發生什麼的時候就會自然發生了。

没看懂...

 

[腊八粥]

刚刚去GOOGLE了一下《Bedtime Eyes》，这个评论很逗：

This was actually 3 novellas, and the last one was actually pretty good, except for its last page or so. But it was nowhere near good enough to save this book from the gutter, because the first 2 are some of the worst things I've ever read.

I guess I'm a little biased, but I just can't stand most feminist porn, because, I don't know, I guess I'm just simple, but can anyone tell me why self-identified feminists always write such blatantly abusive, masochistic sex scenes? I actually can't think of a single sex scene written by a feminist writer that wasn't violent, and the women in these scenes LOVE it, like, somehow it's a show of a strong woman to enjoy getting the shit kicked out of you. Here's a funny part:

"'Fuck me, you bastard!' I screamed.
'You dirty bitch...' Leroy's fingers stopped moving.
He gave me a look of utter contempt. I was crying now, desperate for his touch.
'So you want me to fuck you, do you?'
I looked up at Leroy, tears in my eyes, and nodded. He spit in my face.
'Why don't you just kill me?'
'No,' he said quietly. 'I can do better than that.'"

Here's another funny part:
"I moaned, and Leroy slapped me hard across my face. My lip split and blood poured out. He hated me now. But I knew he loved me, too. He continued thrusting, trying to humiliate and defeat me, and I let him do what he wanted. I'd pretended not to recognize his genius and now I was being punished. He could do as he pleased with me. He'd earned the right.
I could tell he was feeling the same way now that he had two years earlier when he had fucked me by the piano. As soon as people had begun to recognize his talent, he had started a new life as that pianist. I wondered what else I could possibly do for him. Perhaps the only thing I was capable of was crying to make him feel superior.
I nearly lost consciousness a number of times, and Leroy was obviously very satisfied with his work. When he had finished I couldn't speak. My hair was plastered to my forehead with sweat and he brushed it away with his fingers so he could look into my eyes.
'Now I'm going to be living for the touch of your hands,' I confessed."

This is pretty typical of the garbage that makes up the first two thirds of this book. The last story was about the trouble a new girlfriend has with her boyfriend's 11 year old boy, a tragic kid totally a child of parents who hate each other, and it was actually pretty interesting.

I get the feeling Amy Yamada really wants to be American, she's totally obsessed with black Americans and black American culture, music, food, and in the last story, I didn't even know where it was supposed to be set. The main woman is Japanese, and the ex-wife of her boyfriend is Japanese, but everyone else in the story, the women and men both, have English names, and the kid asks for 5 dollars to buy a cheeseburger. What the shit?

Anyway, no no no

这是一个给出了5星级的评论，比较深层次的谈论了作品的实质内涵...
There are 3Eimi Yamada´s short novel from 1985-1986 in this book. The first, Bedtime eyes, is about heroine´s love for black American soldier nicknamed Spoon, who is sometimes very tender and sometimes very violent toward her. He is very sexy for her and she loves his body, but she learn very slowly to love him (his soul and mind, his behaviour). She manages this at last, but he is deserter from his army base and he is taken into prison for desertion. She is devasted and she swears she will be love him forever. (This remind me on ending of Snakes and earrings by Hitomi Kanehara.) The third, Jesse, is about the similar thing, but her black lover is only tender and very good man, but he had 11-years-old son Jesse, who hates her and tortures her. But they learn to live together at last.
Eimi Yamada really lived with black American soldier (but no deserter )) who has 11-years-old son. )
Most interesting for me is the second story, The piano player´s fingers. Heroine is beautiful and capricious Japanese "queen" who is loved by many American soldiers which slave to her. One of them, who loved her very much, was Leroy, nice young man who played piano for his (and her) amusement. She broke up with him cruelly and he was totaly devasted. He returns into Japan after 2 years as famous pianist who is loved by many women. She falls in mad love with him, but he seeks only revenge on her, cruelly toys with her and tortures her. Their sex has strong SM taste. She doesn´like pain but she loves Leroy and she tries endures it all in hope for his future forgiveness. She lives still with her another boyfriend, tender D. C., who loves her very much. He doesn´t know about Leroy, but he is suspicious that she cheats on him. But he loves her still. And she beginns to like D. C. very much - but she doesn´t love him, this is more pity than love. But she is tender toward him, at first at her life. And she confess her love for Leroy, which is her first love confession for anyone at her life, too. But he wants to leave her and to return to U. S. A. She beggs him to kill her in this case, but he tells her that she will be more suffer as abandoned by him than if she would be dead. She hits him after that and she accidentaly kills him. She returns to D. C. and tries to love him but in her soul she feels herself without Leroy as she would be dead...
It reminds me very much on Snakes and earrings by Hitomi Kanehara, but it is more understable version for me. Heroine is not masochist and Leroy is not sadist by nature, this all is only painful game about revenge of weak dumped lover who managed to become strong and avenge his pain. If he could forgive her, there would be happyend, but he couldn´t do it and he died because it. All in this story is logical and whole plot is very good. I hate Snakes and earrings by Hitomi Kanehara, but I love The piano player´s fingers by Eimi Yamada. )(less)

 

[腊八粥]

只是想像一位愛情小說作者祈禱 "神啊，能不能讓我少理性一些，再感性一些" 。
理性影響小說的劇情、節奏、角色設計，丟了作品也就毀掉一半了；
而感性本身都是在的吧，只是收放與培養情緒。該發生什麼的時候就會自然發生了。

小说就是多层次细致准确再现那个场景(能够有新视角更好).....但是到底后面是什么，可能要给评论家和哲学家去考虑了。

 

[让我拥抱你]

刚刚去GOOGLE了一下《Bedtime Eyes》，这个评论很逗：

This was actually 3 novellas, and the last one was actually pretty good, except for its last page or so. But it was nowhere near good enough to save this book from the gutter, because the first 2 are some of the worst things I've ever read.

I guess I'm a little biased, but I just can't stand most feminist porn, because, I don't know, I guess I'm just simple, but can anyone tell me why self-identified feminists always write such blatantly abusive, masochistic sex scenes? I actually can't think of a single sex scene written by a feminist writer that wasn't violent, and the women in these scenes LOVE it, like, somehow it's a show of a strong woman to enjoy getting the shit kicked out of you. Here's a funny part:

"'Fuck me, you bastard!' I screamed.
'You dirty bitch...' Leroy's fingers stopped moving.
He gave me a look of utter contempt. I was crying now, desperate for his touch.
'So you want me to fuck you, do you?'
I looked up at Leroy, tears in my eyes, and nodded. He spit in my face.
'Why don't you just kill me?'
'No,' he said quietly. 'I can do better than that.'"

Here's another funny part:
"I moaned, and Leroy slapped me hard across my face. My lip split and blood poured out. He hated me now. But I knew he loved me, too. He continued thrusting, trying to humiliate and defeat me, and I let him do what he wanted. I'd pretended not to recognize his genius and now I was being punished. He could do as he pleased with me. He'd earned the right.
I could tell he was feeling the same way now that he had two years earlier when he had fucked me by the piano. As soon as people had begun to recognize his talent, he had started a new life as that pianist. I wondered what else I could possibly do for him. Perhaps the only thing I was capable of was crying to make him feel superior.
I nearly lost consciousness a number of times, and Leroy was obviously very satisfied with his work. When he had finished I couldn't speak. My hair was plastered to my forehead with sweat and he brushed it away with his fingers so he could look into my eyes.
'Now I'm going to be living for the touch of your hands,' I confessed."

This is pretty typical of the garbage that makes up the first two thirds of this book. The last story was about the trouble a new girlfriend has with her boyfriend's 11 year old boy, a tragic kid totally a child of parents who hate each other, and it was actually pretty interesting.

I get the feeling Amy Yamada really wants to be American, she's totally obsessed with black Americans and black American culture, music, food, and in the last story, I didn't even know where it was supposed to be set. The main woman is Japanese, and the ex-wife of her boyfriend is Japanese, but everyone else in the story, the women and men both, have English names, and the kid asks for 5 dollars to buy a cheeseburger. What the shit?

Anyway, no no no

这是文化的问题，日本的直川奖是一个很严肃的文学奖，山田咏美一出道，就靠这本书《Bedtime Eyes》在日本得了这个奖。
但是在这边的图书馆里，这本书被归在黄色文学里。

 

[让我拥抱你]

这是一个给出了5星级的评论，比较深层次的谈论了作品的实质内涵...
There are 3Eimi Yamada´s short novel from 1985-1986 in this book. The first, Bedtime eyes, is about heroine´s love for black American soldier nicknamed Spoon, who is sometimes very tender and sometimes very violent toward her. He is very sexy for her and she loves his body, but she learn very slowly to love him (his soul and mind, his behaviour). She manages this at last, but he is deserter from his army base and he is taken into prison for desertion. She is devasted and she swears she will be love him forever. (This remind me on ending of Snakes and earrings by Hitomi Kanehara.) The third, Jesse, is about the similar thing, but her black lover is only tender and very good man, but he had 11-years-old son Jesse, who hates her and tortures her. But they learn to live together at last.
Eimi Yamada really lived with black American soldier (but no deserter )) who has 11-years-old son. )
Most interesting for me is the second story, The piano player´s fingers. Heroine is beautiful and capricious Japanese "queen" who is loved by many American soldiers which slave to her. One of them, who loved her very much, was Leroy, nice young man who played piano for his (and her) amusement. She broke up with him cruelly and he was totaly devasted. He returns into Japan after 2 years as famous pianist who is loved by many women. She falls in mad love with him, but he seeks only revenge on her, cruelly toys with her and tortures her. Their sex has strong SM taste. She doesn´like pain but she loves Leroy and she tries endures it all in hope for his future forgiveness. She lives still with her another boyfriend, tender D. C., who loves her very much. He doesn´t know about Leroy, but he is suspicious that she cheats on him. But he loves her still. And she beginns to like D. C. very much - but she doesn´t love him, this is more pity than love. But she is tender toward him, at first at her life. And she confess her love for Leroy, which is her first love confession for anyone at her life, too. But he wants to leave her and to return to U. S. A. She beggs him to kill her in this case, but he tells her that she will be more suffer as abandoned by him than if she would be dead. She hits him after that and she accidentaly kills him. She returns to D. C. and tries to love him but in her soul she feels herself without Leroy as she would be dead...
It reminds me very much on Snakes and earrings by Hitomi Kanehara, but it is more understable version for me. Heroine is not masochist and Leroy is not sadist by nature, this all is only painful game about revenge of weak dumped lover who managed to become strong and avenge his pain. If he could forgive her, there would be happyend, but he couldn´t do it and he died because it. All in this story is logical and whole plot is very good. I hate Snakes and earrings by Hitomi Kanehara, but I love The piano player´s fingers by Eimi Yamada. )(less)

豆瓣的评论好看懂一些：
http://book.douban.com/review/1140244/
貌似“肮脏”的爱情

2007-04-01 10:36:08 　　来自: frees!a
床上的眼睛的评论

5

　　我忘记了怎么开始喜欢山田咏美的文字了。回想起 来是大四那年开始疯狂泡图书馆的时候，那时候每周都会去国家图书馆两次，每次借回薄厚不一的三本图书然后仿佛溺水一样沉下去。那套“中日女作家新作大系” 的日方方面能够在书架上抓到的几乎都借回来好好看了一遍，留给我最深印象的恐怕就是山田咏美了，那种从欲望开始，以纯真爱情结束的方式给我很大的震动。不 能否认，最开始是很排斥山田的文字，那么原始、直接、甚至有些肮脏，皱着眉头强迫自己看下去，慢慢的折磨变成了蜕变的旧壳，丑陋的蝉蜕里面是湿漉漉有些柔 软细腻的爱情，如此单纯、如此美好、甚至有些天真。那种矛盾使我沉醉其中。《床上的眼睛》是我看她的第一本书，最喜欢的就是收录其中格外清新的 《a2z》，可让我记住她的仍旧是《床上的眼睛》，可能如果不是这种开头与结尾巨大反差的故事，她于我不过就是一时激动进而过往云烟并非现今念念不忘的一 个名字。后来就是那本《垃圾》，一如既往的震动、一如既往的痛苦阅读历程，很同意一个朋友说过的话，每天都在读，每天都读不了几页，但每天都比前一天不知 不觉多读了几页，确实如此，山田让人慢慢中毒，到故事终于完结的时候不由松了一口气却又开始整个人变得空虚，能够令人虚脱的力量来自她的笔下。
　　
　　对于山田的书我只看过前面提到的《床上的眼睛》《垃圾》，是在两三年前，现在回忆起来隐隐约约的故事，但对她的喜爱却极其肯定。
　　
　　当时还拿着一本《口红》，忘记在哪里看到过介绍，把柳美里与山田咏美并提，还提过吉本芭娜娜……后来慢慢忘记了久不露面的山田（此后没有出版 社引进她的简体中文版），反而很高兴看到吉本的书、柳的书。再次经历了仿佛浩劫一般的言语“暴力”——来自柳的小说《淘金热》《家庭电影》，精神折磨—— 来自吉本的《甘露》《白河夜船》，看了电影而后感动得四处寻觅的柳《命》……进而发现原来最喜欢的还是山田。
　　
　　不擅长那种比较的论调，但是还是忍不住要有比较。这些女作家给我的感受还是很不相同的，吉本的调调江国香织的调调是相似的味道，柳的感觉山本 的感觉却极不相同，山本骨子里是甜蜜的性感的，而柳就是冷冷的不好亲近的，硬要说相似的话那就是对语言文字挑选有趋同的癖好，对爱情的凌厉剖析有着相似的 一针见血与冷酷，对欲望从不掩饰的刻画。可内核却南辕北辙，山田是天真甜蜜，柳却是解不开的纠结，仿佛是长着天真任性面容的小孩却拥有愤世嫉俗的表情。
　　
　　认真想了想，看柳的第一本书是《口红》，那故事跟江国香织《一闪一闪亮晶晶》（据说还有根据这个故事改编成的一部电影《闪闪亮》）有些许相 像，而江国处理的更加单纯些。当时对柳没有太深的印象，但是现在突然想起来不知道是翻译问题还是其他什么原因，《口红》的语言与她其他的作品风格迥异，与 一般女作家相似，是那种明显的女性化的感觉，一点也不突兀，所以没有想过后来会那么重视她的《命》。
　　
　　曾经写过有关柳美里、山田咏美、吉本芭娜娜的文字，而现在还是那种感觉，对于山田还是那句“仿佛躺在泥塘里仰望湛蓝的广阔天空”，即使如何丑陋但那是我独一无二的绝美爱情，只是爱情没有其他的杂质。
　　
　　
　　以上文字送给一位不认识的朋友，因为在沉闷中我收到了来自她的意外信函。