With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.
This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle–yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.
Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s truly great storytellers at the height of his powers.
村上春树(1949- ),日本小说家。曾在早稻田大学文学部戏剧科就读。1979年,他的第一部小说《听风之歌》问世后,即被搬上了银幕。随后,他的优秀作品《1973年的弹子球》、《寻羊冒险记》、《挪威的森林》等相继发表。他的创作不受传统拘束,构思新奇,行文潇洒自在,而又不流于庸俗浅薄。尤其是在刻画人的孤独无奈方面更有特色,他没有把这种情绪写成负的东西,而是通过内心的心智性操作使之升华为一种优雅的格调,一种乐在其中的境界,以此来为读者,尤其是生活在城市里的人们提供了一种生活模式或生命的体验。
昨天才读完《海边的卡夫卡》,倒真如奥地利作家弗兰兹卡夫卡作品般荒谬,这本书拖拖踏踏读了差不多一个月才读完,看到最后一句时,总有种莫名的空虚感,却无法从中感到什么实质性的思考。直到隔了一天,午睡苏醒时才像是触电般感到——这是一个十五岁少年对荒谬世界的初步认知...
评分似乎每个少年都有过离家出走的冲动。厌倦于日复一日单调的家庭生活,于是向往着远方未知的历险。当然,真正的叛逆者并不多,那只是我们青春岁月短暂的幻想之旅而已。但是,这种冲动潜伏在我们的血液中,成为许多人长大成人后写作的动力。 村上春树的小说都来源于他年轻时的经...
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...
评分读这本卡夫卡,最初是随便翻翻,读得好慢,后来竟是越读越快,越读越快。我承认,这里面有着村上给我带来的巨大吸引——流水般幽静深邃的笔触和充满异国情调的美丽背景——然而,读得越来越快的原因,更多的是,想要证明,最终的村上是否会让他所有的逻辑完满严密?也许,对...
在一片未知森林的游荡,密密麻麻的蜘蛛网,无法逃脱的某些。
评分from June 10th to August 15th, i read this book in the mountains of Guizhou, in the hospital after gastro perforation, and back home. the english version is not so good as i supposed, maybe due to my bad mood. The world is a metaphor, Oshima said.
评分比中文版好看
评分Haruki Murakami you are so great!
评分All the characters are pretty lonesome and eccentric in their own ways (save Hoshino, maybe). However, each of them bond with one another in a special and strong way, and that's what moved me the most about the book. They can understand each other before words are exchanged. The translation is beautiful, I once again want to say how much I hate林少华
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