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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.
##like alice in wonderland - but better.
評分##我的村上接受史有點奇怪。一開始的時候,我對村上春樹的作品是比較抵抗的。記得最早看到《挪威的森林》還是在80年代,在一本外國文學雜誌上,隨便翻瞭幾頁就看不下去瞭。當時的印象是:太小資瞭,很膚淺。那個時候心高氣傲,自以為很深刻,很多東西都不放在眼裏,尤其是對...
評分##1.看完瞭《海邊的卡夫卡》,覺得有些作傢天賦就是寫短篇的。寫短篇與寫長篇與其說是一種纔能,不如說是天生的心性。(這麼一說,我喜歡的作傢幾乎都是寫中短篇的。寫長篇的一個也沒有。)寫長篇首先需要的是一種結構力。這可不是普通的結構力,而是一種能夠把讀者“結構”進來...
評分##英文很美,但是我覺得做作。
評分 評分##英文翻譯可讀性強很多,大概一來村上受英文文學影響太重,二來林少華功力還是不行
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