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BANANA YOSHIMOTO, KITCHEN. ABOUT USUAL AS SAFETY SPACE: THE KITCHEN
Summary
This article focuses on revealing a new perspective upon Banana Yoshimoto's novel, Kitchen: the connection between
literature and architecture. Starting with this it also tries to offer some arguments coming to support the hypothesis which states
that this novel is a modern one. Regarding this aspect the novel gives some clues which are to be found in the article. For instance,
these can be identified in such words like „cool”, „quiz show”, „deux pieces”, „Saint-Bernard”, „SF” and, the most important,
“Kitchen”, the title. It is worth noticing the author’s preference for the English term, even though Japanese language has a word
for this, namely “daidokoro”. The fact that Mikage, the major character, discovered alone the secrets of gastronomy without a
sensei (teacher, master) stands as an important sign of modernity. In what concerns the first perspective this article is meant to
reveal a new “dialogue” between emotions and objects or spaces. Mikage’s anxieties are drawn away by the refrigerator’s
humming which, as she herself admits it, makes her feel secure. In order to pass over her grandmother’s death, Mikage is asked to
live with a friend’s family. When visiting their apartment she says that the only thing she would like to see is the kitchen, towards
which she fells love, a human emotion usually directed to other persons. Her loneliness is closely related with the Japanese concept
named “mono no aware” referring to a certain sadness of things, a melancholy planted in nature, a special sensibility that regards
with sympathy other’s sufferings and with resignation one’s own.
Cuvinte-cheie: Biografie, Mono no aware, Modernitate, Bucătărie, Spaţiu securizant, Cultură orientală vs. Cultură
occidentală, Tradiţie, Vis, Realitate.
1 Ibidem.
2 Trad. de Angela Hondru, în Angela Hondru, Ghid de literatură japoneză, Ed. Victor, Bucureşti, 1999, p. 160.