具體描述
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of the stories that make up The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary. (20021018)
用戶評價
##村上的英譯要比中譯好讀
評分##還是比中文有感覺…………
評分##奇鳥貫串瞭N多短篇
評分##村上的英譯要比中譯好讀
評分##兩位譯者的風格真是截然不同，Alfred用詞比較艱澀，Jay平實通俗。有點兒像中譯本你死我活級彆的林賴之分。讀英文版的最大收獲是會看得比較仔細，幾乎要一字一句的讀，不像看中文有些細節容易滑過去。至於小說本身，喜歡的篇目還是那幾篇，不喜歡的也一樣，沒有因為語言的不同而有什麼改變。
評分##超贊
評分正在看，和中文版的感覺很不一樣，因為村上本身就受西方短篇小說傢影響較大，以後還是看英譯本。
評分##exceptional enthralling
評分##今晚把象的失蹤這一篇看瞭，還是感慨中英譯本讀起來的體驗相當懸殊。看到某篇評論說，消失之後該注重的問題不是why是where，我倒是覺得where也不重要，but what’s next?
