Chapter 16 Life is indifferent, living in seclusion

Life is indifferent, living in seclusion Naoko Anbo was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1943.When she was one year old, she became someone else's adopted daughter, and she frequently changed schools from elementary school to middle school. In 1969, he published his famous work "Huajiao Doll", which won the Newcomer Award of the 3rd Japan Children's Literature Association, and has since embarked on the road of fantasy novel creation. He died of pneumonia in 1993, in his prime. Naoko Anfang was indifferent all her life, lived in seclusion, and even refused to travel.In a chronology compiled by herself, she once wrote that when she was 29 years old in 1972, she built a mountain hut in Karuizawa in the east of Nagano Prefecture, and spent every summer there after that.Miyoko Matsutani, the female writer who wrote "Two Idas" and "Ryuko Taro", once took a car to stop by Naoko Anbo's mountain hut one summer.She described it as a place surrounded by larch trees. In the morning, Naoko Anfang would write on the table covered with a white tablecloth in the yard...

Except for a few novels such as "Tianlu", Naoko Anfang's works are very short, and most of them are short story collections or short story series.She herself has publicly admitted that she is not good at writing novels.So some people say that Anfang Naoko is essentially a short story writer. Naoko Anfang's short stories are all written with great care and exquisiteness.Some critics said that her works are "as detailed as embroidery, even the shape of the needle marks are so consistent with this person", like "a silently blooming flower in a corner of the yard", filled with a kind of quietness a feeling of.

Pursue the beautiful world Peng Yi, the translator and writer of "The Masterpiece of Naoko Anfang's Fantastic Novels", believes that Naoko Anfang pursues an aesthetic world. Her style of writing is harmonious and stable, but there is a touch of sadness floating in the sweet fantasy. Where does this sadness come from?Some people say it was born with her, and some people said it was because Naoko Anfang was an adopted daughter... Anyway, she always "started from the perspective of a gentle woman, blending this light sadness into her poignant, ethereal and dreamlike In the text, I write stories that are so simple that they are almost transparent, but that make people feel the pain and poetry of life."

Loneliness, death, warmth, love and lingering nostalgia are the most common themes in Anfang Naoko's works.Japanese critic Taijiro Amazawa believes that the sadness in Naoko Anbo’s works is not because of the obvious death or farewell to the loved one, but a kind of pain in the chest. Death was once a big taboo in children's literature, but Naoko Anbo did not avoid this topic, but wrote novels that "even adults can't help but arouse empathy" with Grimm's fairy tale fantasy.The "Representative Works of Naoko Anfang" launched by Children's Publishing House this time includes.It is reported that Relay Publishing House will release other masterpieces of Naoko Anfang's novels next year.