半个世纪前,大江健三郎在其初登文坛之作——《奇妙的工作》中,描绘了狗的形象。这一形象所包含的象征意义何在?本文将结合战后日本社会的现实状况来分析这一形象。一、《奇妙的工作》中狗的形象与大江文学的起点众所周知,大江健三郎凭借其短篇小说《奇妙的工作》,在日本文坛崭露头角。尽管大江本人在20世纪50年代末至60年代中期,创作了数量众多的短篇及中篇小说,可随着大江健三郎创作思想和技巧的成熟,大江文学最终进入了以长篇小说创作为主 Half a century ago, Oe Kenzaburo portrayed the image of dogs in his first literary work, The Wonderful Work. What is the symbolic meaning of this image? This article will analyze this image in the light of the actual situation of post-war Japanese society. First, the “wonderful work” in the image of dogs and the starting point of Oe’s literary well-known, Oe Kenzaburo with his short story “wonderful work” in Japan literary debut. Although Oe himself authored a large number of short and novella in the late 1950s and the mid 1960s, with the maturation of Kenzaburo Oe’s creative thinking and techniques, Oe’s literature eventually entered the mainstream of novel creation