村上春树(1949-),日本著名作家。京都府人。毕业于早稻田大学文学部。1979年以处女作《且听风吟》获群像信任文学奖。主要著作有《挪威的森林》、《世界尽头与冷酷仙境》、《舞!舞!舞》、《奇鸟行状录》、《海边的卡夫卡》、《天黑以后》等。作品被译介至三十多个国家和地区,在世界各地深具影响。
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From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.
In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakami’s brilliant novels.
From Publishers Weekly
On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed lethal sarin gas into cars of the Tokyo subway system. Many died, many more were injured. This is acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami's (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, etc.) nonfiction account of this episode. It is riveting. What he mostly does here, however, is listen to and record, in separate sections, the words of both victims, people who "just happened to be gassed on the way to work," and attackers. The victims are ordinary people bankers, businessmen, office workers, subway workers who reflect upon what happened to them, how they reacted at the time and how they have lived since. Some continue to suffer great physical disabilities, nearly all still suffer great psychic trauma. There is a Rashomon-like quality to some of the tales, as victims recount the same episodes in slightly different variations. Cumulatively, their tales fascinate, as small details weave together to create a complex narrative. The attackers are of less interest, for what they say is often similar, and most remain, or at least do not regret having been, members of Aum. As with the work of Studs Terkel, which Murakami acknowledges is a model for this present work, the author's voice, outside of a few prefatory comments, is seldom heard. He offers no grand explanation, no existential answer to what happened, and the book is better for it. This is, then, a compelling tale of how capriciously and easily tragedy can destroy the ordinary, and how we try to make sense of it all. (May 1)Forecast: Publication coincides with the release of a new novel by Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart, Forecasts, Mar. 19), and several national magazines, including Newsweek and GQ, will be featuring this fine writer. This attention should help Murakami's growing literary reputation.
From Library Journal
The deadly Tokyo subway poison gas attack, perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on March 20, 1995, was the fulfillment of every urban straphanger's nightmare. Through interviews with several dozen survivors and former members of Aum, novelist Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) presents an utterly compelling work of reportage that lays bare the soul of contemporary Japan in all its contradictions. The sarin attack exposed Tokyo authorities' total lack of preparation to cope with such fiendish urban terrorism. More interesting, however, is the variety of reactions among the survivors, a cross-section of Japanese citizens. Their individual voices remind us of the great diversity within what is too often viewed from afar as a homogeneous society. What binds most of them is their curious lack of anger at Aum. Chilling, too, is the realization that so many Aum members were intelligent, well-educated persons who tried to fill voids in their lives by following Shoko Asahara, a mad guru who promised salvation through total subordination to his will. For all public and academic libraries. Steven I. Levine, Univ. of Montana, Missoula
From Booklist
After living abroad for eight years, novelist Murakami returned to Japan intent on gaining a deeper understanding of his homeland, a mission that took on an unexpected urgency in the aftermath of the Tokyo poison-gas attack in March 1995. Inspired by a letter to the editor from a woman whose husband survived the subway attack but suffered terrible aftereffects, Murakami set out to interview as many survivors as he could find who were capable of overcoming the Japanese reluctance to complain or criticize. With great sensitivity, insight, and respect, Murakami coaxed a remarkable group of people into describing their harrowing experiences aboard the five morning rush-hour trains on which members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released deadly sarin gas. Unlike a journalist, Murakami doesn't force these searing narratives into tidy equations of cause and effect, good and evil, but rather allows contradictions and ambiguity to stand, thus presenting unadorned the shocking truth of the diabolical and brutal manner in which ordinary lives were derailed or destroyed. The most haunting aspect of these accounts is the eerie passivity of the passengers both during and after the assault, a phenomena echoed in Murakami's courageous interviews with Aum members, frank conversations that reveal the depth of these individuals' spiritual longings and the horror of their betrayal at the hands of their corrupt and insane leader. Shaped by his fascination with alternative worlds and humanity's capacity for both compassion and abomination, Murakami's masterful and empathic chronicle vividly articulates the lessons that should be learned from this tragic foray into chaos.
Donna Seaman
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##读《地下》的时候,我正在做一件事,这件事可能会成为我这辈子最后悔的事。 《地下》是记录1995年日本东京地铁沙林毒气事件的长篇纪实文学,作者拜访了62名事件亲历者,他们中间有些人被毒气害得厉害,半生与病榻相伴,有些虽损伤较轻,留在身体及心里的后遗症却时时侵扰。 ...
评分 评分##前半部是对幸存者的采访以及村上解释为什么要写这本书,后半部分是对教众的采访,在面对一个个具体的人时,之前的一些想法多少有些改变。村上认为阪神地震和东京地铁沙林事件是日本战后最大的灾难,虽然前者是自然因素后者是人为,但无疑都给普通人造成了巨大的心理创伤。所以希望通过自己的写作去做些什么,至少在应急政策上能有所改善。也是从写阪神地震的after the quake对村上改观,接着再看这本书,他确实是想以小说家的身份去介入社会问题。准备再重读下他的小说。
评分 评分##A book about lights and shadows within everybody, which is a theme constantly explored by a list of acclaimed writers (e.g., Le Guin, 史鐵生). A book about us being common, being special, being isolated, being connected. The book reminds me that Murakami is undoubtedly a superb non-fiction writer, no matter what people say.
评分##书中所写的受访者,往往会强调这么两种情况:那天毫无特殊,本人如往常一般出门上班,搭上同班地铁的同一节车厢,就像饿了便想吃饭一样正常;另一种则是,按本人平时的习惯,是不会搭上那一班车或者那一节车厢的,但是那天由于某种原因偏巧就出现在了那里而受到波及。 ...
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