新時期文學における愛の諸相

Abstract

After the Cultural Revolution, the theme of love which had been a taboo reappeared in the New Time Literature. During the last ten years, a number of novelists--especially female writers--have challenged this taboo, and consciously began to write new love stories. Although there are some shortcomings in the stories, their writings can be regarded as a new beginning of the Chinese love romances. What's new? It is the change of their ideals about love which could not be found in the past. The female writers lust for true and ideal love. This thesis includes a general view on the development of the Chinese love stories in the last ten years, and a description of the changes about the conception of love in different stages. The end of the Cultural Revolution resulted in the revival of love stories. In the early stage of the New Time Literature, there are confidences in and passions for love, but later, the rational and objective views of love have emerged through the disillusionment of marriage. The change of the conception of love can be classified into four stages. There are obstacles to love in the first three stages while the last stage is the solution. The characteristics of these four stages are as follows : 1 The first stage : anti-feudalism. The obstacles to love in this stage are the match marriage and the fidelity of widows. 2 The second stage : the contradiction between the new political rank and the right wing. 3 The third stage : the opposition between the traditional matrimonial morality and the new standard of love, 4 The final stage : the search for eternal love. The fate of love cannot be controlled by reasons and will arrive at the Karma of mankind. It is impossible to have eternal love when the two lovers are joined in the real world. Only Platonic love can attain eternal life with death being the best guarantor.