Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Часть 2

Литературы стран Дальнего Востока и ЮВА: прошлое и настоящее Issues of Far Eastern Literatures. Vol. 1. 2018 279 “Two mothers met in a crematorium. Both had buried their children here. This is dawn and there is loneliness all over. The son of a mother had sacrificed his life for the country while other mother’s son could not be saved from tuberculosis even after giving him a small dose of live blood. Diseased son and revolutionary son ----both had lost their life in the same social condition. The same society had created both but turned them too against each other.And then both mothers return, looking the crow flying towards horizon from the crematorium. In their folk tales, crow is symbol of soul and women’s companion and horizon symbolizes future.” 12 Muktibodh is famous for his fantasies and symbolism and commitments in the arena of Hindi literature. No wonder he praises Lu Xun in no unequal terms and calls him ‘the Valmiki of china’s new age’ 13 . Though Muktibodh is primarily a poet but his stories do supplement his poems — the persona and the voice of the author is distinctly recognizable all through his writings. His fantasies create reality in non- real forms and his stories like Claude Eatherly and The disciple of Brahmarakchas can be cited here as two great examples of this category. The story Claude Eatherly develops through dialogues between two strangers, one of them is a C. I.D informer and the other is a writer who is narrating the story. The narrator does not know that just a minute before with whom he got an eye contact, just out of curiosity to look what is inside in a mysterious building of a mental asylum is famous Claude Eatherly. After knowing it from the informer, irritatingly he asks then, “Is it not Hindustan then? Are we living in America? He guffawed over my foolishness and said, “There is America in each big city of Hindustan. Did not you see white golden women with red bright lips and their costly attires? Did not you notice overeducated gentry roaming around in luxurious cars? Did not you find a kind of sophisticated adultery? Did not you see seminars? Once upon a time we used to go to London and called ‘London returned’and today we go to Washington. Given a chance and if we become equally rich then nothing will be as good as having equal number of atom bombs, hydrogen bombs and rockets” 14 . Historical Claude Robert Eatherly (1918–1978) was an officer in the U. S. Army Air Forces during World War II. He was the weather pilot who reported and gave green signal for the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945. Years later, Eatherly claimed to have become horrified for his participation in the Hiroshima bombing. He tried speaking out with pacifist groups ( especially with Günther Anders, a Viennese philosopher and pacifist), sending monetary helps to Hiroshima, writing letters of apology, and once or twice attempted suicide. But some contrary facts about him are also prevalent, Jerome Klinkowitz writes in ‘ American Flyers in World War II’ : Shortly after leaving the Air Force in 1947, Eatherly took part in arrangements for a raid on Cuba by American adventurers hoping to overthrow the government; here the former weather pilot's responsibilities would involve a flight of bomb-laden P-38 Lightning obtained as war surplus. The