Loss and Surpassing in Virtual Dreams: Yasutaka Tsutsui's <i>Paprika</i>

DING Zhuo

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214409

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DING Zhuo. Loss and Surpassing in Virtual Dreams: Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 739-751. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214409

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DING Zhuo. Loss and Surpassing in Virtual Dreams: Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 739-751. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214409

DING Zhuo. Loss and Surpassing in Virtual Dreams: Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 739-751. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214409

Citation:

DING Zhuo. Loss and Surpassing in Virtual Dreams: Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 739-751. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214409

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Loss and Surpassing in Virtual Dreams: Yasutaka Tsutsui's Paprika

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214409

DING Zhuo^,

Jilin International Studies University

Received Date: 2021-02-08
Accepted Date: 2021-05-30

Abstract

Abstract

In the 1970 s, rapid developments in virtual technology gave rise to science fiction works that focused on representing virtual worlds. A virtual world is a simulated situation generated according to reality with virtual technology. Science fiction that deals with virtual worlds explores human consciousness in the transition between real and virtual through two types of virtual world:virtual reality and virtual dreams, of which the latter reflects the loss and surpassing of people in a more concentrated way. "Loss" refers to people losing their grasp on living consciousness and beginning to confuse hallucination and reality. "Surpassing" here means that people surpass the state of loss by reshaping and recreating their consciousness in their own virtual world. Paprika, by the Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui, reveals the trifold loss state of "Where am I?," "Who is she?," and "How do I return?" in the blend of virtual and real worlds. The writer also explores surpassing in the entanglement of truth and falsehood between the virtual and real worlds, the cognitive contradiction between self and other, and the dreamland transformation of indulgence in sensual pleasure and healing, so as to inspire people's rediscovery of life consciousness from the three perspectives of "virtual and real equality, " "third perspective," and "psychological healing."
- virtual dreams,
- virtual worlds,
- science fiction,
- loss,
- surpassing,
- Paprika

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