“Lost” Characters in Japanese Stories Of the End of XXth — beginning of the XXIst Centuries

Authors

  • Лиала Юрьевна Хронопуло St. Petersburg State University, 7–9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

Abstract

Characters of modern Japanese writers, whose stories are analyzed in the article (Atoda Takashi, Akimoto Yasushi, Shiina Makoto, Murakami Ryu, Ekuni Kaori, Hayashi Mariko), are lost in modern world, having much in common with each other: solitude and internal emptiness, helplessness in front of circumstances and feeling themselves strangers in society, lead them to humility to their fate. All characters are united by having no strength for struggle with dignity, and prefer escaping from reality.

Keywords:

Atoda Takashi, Akimoto Yasushi, Shiina Makoto, Murakami Ryu, Ekuni Kaori, Hayashi Mariko, solitude, internal emptiness, lost

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Published

2009-09-21

How to Cite

Хронопуло, Л. Ю. (2009). “Lost” Characters in Japanese Stories Of the End of XXth — beginning of the XXIst Centuries. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, (3), 108–112. Retrieved from https://aasjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/1713

Issue

No. 3 (2009): Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 13. Asian Studies. African Studies

Section

Literary studies

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Articles of "Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies" are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.