Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Часть 2

Секция 5 • Panel 5 Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Т. 1. 2018 174 incomes and professions come there united by common goal — to find themselves. Detectives create a portrait of personality, collect the opinions of other people, who know their client in real life, for quite a large reward. The agency denies Misao Kai- bara due to her young age. Then one of the bartenders offers her a game where she can reach the seventh level and regain her identity. In the end, the girl gets into the trap, where she is firstly offered mild forms of medications for memory loss, and then so called “seventh level” — synthesized medicine used with electroshock to block some memories of her life in the brain. However, she does not reach the “seventh level” and gets into the clinic, headed by the main villain of the story — Professor Takezo Murashita. Etsuko Shingezi, which Misao met when calling the “hotline”, tries to save her. Etsuko works in “Neverland” company and answers the phone calls from strangers (mostly lonely or confused people, or teenagers). She gradually realizes that her company openly provides “help”, but secretly collects data for a bigger insurance company that has many options to offer for lonely people. Thus, the author emphasizes the reality of isolation problem and the resource- fulness of some people who have made attempts to earn money on this situation. Even Etsuko herself after her husband’s death from overwork ( karoshi —another harsh realia of Japanese society) is aware that she considered her husband more like a brother and was indifferent to him. However, the main villain, who has an extremely unpleasant personality, is a lonely man as well, who tries to prove his worth from the early childhood. Thus, for all the acuteness of the plot in the “Level 7” detective story Miyuki Miyabe shows how painfully the Japanese people perceive the indifferent attitude of others towards themselves. They cannot change the situation and take everything as it is. The author represents problem of teenagers who become criminals because of the feeling of permissiveness in the detective story “Crossfire” (Kurosufaia, 1992) 1 . Junko Aoki, a young lady who possesses the fantastic gift of pyrokinesis, has to deal with such teenagers. She can burn people alive and objects in seconds. At the same time, she is an orphan, whose parents before their death made fortune and taught her to use the gift of pyrokinesis carefully. In fact, she constantly feels loneliness. In the end of the story Junko Aoki deals with all the criminals and is killed by the representative of the special forces, which control unusually gifted people. The writer speaks about the problems of Japanese credit system and the debt pits, which keep destroying families, in the detective story “All she was worth” (Kasha, 1992) 2 . Ayoung girl, the main character, is an orphan, whose parents were killed for 1 In japanese — ȷɵɁɝȩȬȪ 2 In Japanese — ⚛䓺