摘要
《恍惚的人》是日本女作家有吉佐和子1972年发表的社会问题小说,围绕痴呆老人的看护问题展开叙述。有吉佐和子用写实主义手法逼真地展现了日本上世纪六七十年代老年问题的严峻和残酷。中国“80后”女作家蔡东的短篇小说《往生》描绘了当代中国人口问题引发“老老护理”的真实困境。日本和中国相继进入老龄化社会,这两部跨越四十余年的护理文学作品虽然在创作风格和篇幅长短上存在差异,但相似的老龄化社会背景和同根共源的中日民族文化体系之下,都围绕着儿媳照料患有老年痴呆的公公这一故事,展开伦理叙事。本文从文学伦理学的视角出发,对两部作品中形成的伦理结构进行解析,考察老龄化社会之中看护病老所引发的复杂伦理身份问题、由于伦理混乱给护理人和被护理人带来的伦理困境,揭示一系列伦理选择所观照的老龄化社会中的家庭护理问题。
Senile Person(Koukotsu no hito)is a social reality novel published by Japanese female writer Sawako Ariyoshi in 1972.It focuses on the nursing of the elderly with dementia.She used realistic techniques to show the severity and cruelty of the problem of aging society in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s.The short story Afterlife by CAI Dong,a Chinese female writer born in the 1980s,depicts the real dilemma of“nursing the elderly”caused by the population problem in contemporary China.Japan and China have entered an aging society,the two nursing novels span more than 40 years,although there are differences in the style and length,since Japan and China share the common aging society background and are under the system of national culture similar with each other,the two works are all around the daughter-in-law had no choice but take care of the father-in-law who had Alzheimer’s disease,such an ethical narration,the research issues revealed by the two works are comparable.This article starts from the perspective of literary ethics to analyze ethical structure formed in the two works,investigates the complex ethical identity problem of an aging society which caused by senile disease and elder care and ethical dilemmas caused by the ethical confusion between the carer and the elderly,which intend to reveal a series of ethical choices and home care problems in an aging society by parsing the two texts.
作者
刘捷奥
LIU Jie-ao(School of Foreign Languages and Literature,Nanjing Tech University,Nanjing 211816,China)
出处
《宜春学院学报》
2022年第8期91-97,共7页
Journal of Yichun University
基金
国家社科基金重点项目“日本‘护理’及老年题材文学研究”(项目编号:20AWW003)。
