Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Часть 2

Секция 5 • Panel 5 Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Т. 1. 2018 176 night” (Tsumetai yoru ni, 1989) 1 . There are no fathers in this story, although one of them is mentioned in the context of financial support for the family. The writer quotes the compositions by three children who are studying in the same class and living in the same complex. They seem to be jealous for each other. The girl Oshima Kanako suffers from excess weight, complains about the endless counting of calories by her mother and wants to eat everything as her classmate Kitamura Reiko does. Reiko, in turn, is not satisfied with her mother due to her constant work. Mother neglects domestic duties, cannot cook. As a result, the girl eats semi-cooked food and wants to be like the mother of her classmate Kato Kenichiro, who is fond of cooking. Kato calls his mother “cooking witch” and suffers from her hobby. He complains that she cooks different dishes of all world cuisines and makes complex desserts “one name of which can make a person go crazy”. The boy dreams of his mother count- ing calories as a mother of a classmate Oshima and cooking a very simple meal. Only mothers who spend a large amount of time with their kids feel offended. Mrs. Oshima threatens her daughter that she will go to live with Reiko and then eat what she wants, and Kato Kenichiro’s mother wants her son to be interested in food as Oshima Reiko. Thus, the author creates the circular composition of the story — it begins and ends with a reference to Reiko. In addition, the internal relationships between moth- ers and children are revealed. Ekuni Kaori shows the world of relationship within families, which is hidden from the outside world. Yamamoto Fumio (1962) 2 takes the third place in the ranking. She started her writing career with the stories for teenagers-girls, and then turned to a serious lit- erature. However, her first steps in this area were unsuccessful: despite of the good critics` evaluations, readers avoided her books. Yamamoto Fumio describes family life, reflects on the meaning of marriage and says that people who want to get mar- ried, have different ideas about it and their expectations often crashes. She addresses to the issue of marriage partner choice in the novel “Deep blue” (Buru mosiku buru, 1992) 3 . The main character, Soko, rejects Kavakami’s proposal, a man fromKyushu island: family life in the distant lands far away fromTokyo with him seems unbearable to her. She marries a wealthy guy Sasaki, who represents the image of the man of her dreams. Later, it seems that the husband married her as he had to, but did not have deep feelings. In her journey in Hakata, Soko meets a woman similar to himself, and comes to the conclusion that in a difficult moment of choice she split into two and got dopelganger. Two women swap places, but it was not the best idea. None of them feels happiness. As a result, women returned to their places into the marriage with husbands they did not like. 1 In Japanes — ǹȖǴǙȝȠȀ 2 ኡᵜ ᮷㐂 3 In Japanese — ɞɳόȗǬǤȄɞɳό