ABSTRACT This article considers the textual importance of matricide in Kirino Natsuo’s 2004 novel Real World. On the one hand, Kirino deploys the death of the maternal figure, which is committed by a teenage male, to critique systemic violence against women. On the other hand, she uses the death – which occurs prior to the events of the novel – to index the ways in which Japanese youth navigate recessionary Japan. This article’s analysis of the novel demonstrates the idea that? although life after the recession has been consistently defined by rampant rejection of Japanese hegemony, including the sustained questioning of home and school life, interpellation is still a practical necessity. In Real World (based loosely on a real-life incident), the teenage killer and the high school girls who help him evade capture are ultimately punished for their transgression of social norms; Worm, as the killer is known, is apprehended by the police, and the friendship that binds the girls together is fractured beyond repair. This article thus identifies a conservative pulse in this writer’s work that, on the surface, reads almost like a celebration of dangerous living.

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隔壁的怪物：桐乃夏尾现实世界中的怪物、杀母和化装舞会

摘要 本文考虑了 Kirino Natsuo 2004 年小说 Real World 中母体的重要性。一方面，Kirino 部署了一名十几岁男性所犯的母亲形象的死亡，以批判对妇女的系统性暴力。另一方面，她利用死亡——发生在小说事件之前——来索引日本青年在衰退日本的方式。这篇文章对小说的分析表明了这个想法？尽管经济衰退后的生活一直被定义为对日本霸权的猖獗拒绝，包括对家庭和学校生活的持续质疑，但质询仍然是一种实际需要。在现实世界中（大致基于现实生活中的事件），少年杀手和帮助他逃避抓捕的高中女生最终因违反社会规范而受到惩罚；众所周知的凶手蠕虫被警察逮捕，将女孩们联系在一起的友谊破裂得无法修复。因此，这篇文章在这位作家的作品中确定了一种保守的脉搏，从表面上看，它读起来几乎像是对危险生活的庆祝。