Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. He can be located on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/harukimuraka...
Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences.
Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife.
Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells' song, although it is widely thought it was titled after the Beach Boys tune), Norwegian Wood (after The Beatles' song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (the first part being the title of a song by Nat King Cole).
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. Murakami's novel is at once a classic quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.
##for the very first time found out that English is so much easier to be understood than Chinese... too much descriptions though...beautifully adapted:)
评分 评分##怎么说呢,我很喜欢译者啊……
评分##怎么说呢,我很喜欢译者啊……
评分 评分##最近一口气读了三本村上春树:1988年的《舞、舞、舞》,1995年的《奇鸟形状录》和2002年的《海边的卡夫卡》。这三个长篇小说都具有充分的奇幻情节,不论情节安排、语言组织还是立意展现,都一部强于一部,尤其《海边的卡夫卡》,基本可以看作是1985年《世界尽头与冷酷仙境》的...
评分##读罢《海边的卡夫卡》,我忽然想,那个写《且听风吟》,写《挪威的森林》村上究竟哪里去了? 我不知道,为什么有人会说《挪威的森林》是村上最差的作品。《挪威的森林》于我而言,就像是一首诗。多年之后,我依然记得主人公坐在波音客机降落在汉堡机场,看着窗外熟悉的风...
评分##1.看完了《海边的卡夫卡》,觉得有些作家天赋就是写短篇的。写短篇与写长篇与其说是一种才能,不如说是天生的心性。(这么一说,我喜欢的作家几乎都是写中短篇的。写长篇的一个也没有。)写长篇首先需要的是一种结构力。这可不是普通的结构力,而是一种能够把读者“结构”进来...
评分##确切说来是在听有声书。有一搭没一搭,上班路上听十分钟。
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