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
##exceptional enthralling
評分##exceptional enthralling
評分##有讀過其中幾篇的中譯版，重讀英譯果然感受大不同啊，少瞭絲氛圍感但更清爽有力。喜歡喜歡。
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##村上的英譯要比中譯好讀
評分##還是很有意思的，閉上眼聽書，腦中劇場比電影精彩百倍，真人動漫畫風格隨意切換，遠景近景特寫各種調度都隨心所欲，太過癮瞭。進入村上春樹的奇幻世界，這種被empowered的感覺尤為強烈。
評分##比較喜歡"The Second Bakery Attack"，"The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, And The Realm of Raging Winds"，"A Family Affair"，"The Last Lawn of the Afternoon"四篇。
評分##可能是我記性真的很差，也可能是我已經完全把讀村上春樹內化成瞭一種私人體驗，總之讀完之後能記住的情節和故事結構不多，但是很多的人物性格，心理活動，對物品或者環境的細節描寫，不同場景的氛圍和各種思考會一陣陣的湧迴來。喜歡村上春樹對“現實”的愛誰誰的態度，相比之下電影燃燒的改編就很俗套的加入瞭許多刑偵懸疑的元素，就像各類報紙對待消失的大象一樣，真夠逗的。
評分##When I wish to comment on this I promptly forget my words.
