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.
我的村上接受史有点奇怪。一开始的时候,我对村上春树的作品是比较抵抗的。记得最早看到《挪威的森林》还是在80年代,在一本外国文学杂志上,随便翻了几页就看不下去了。当时的印象是:太小资了,很肤浅。那个时候心高气傲,自以为很深刻,很多东西都不放在眼里,尤其是对...
评分 评分 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...
评分五百多页的长篇,居然能写得这么空洞,概念化,莫名其妙,还真是少见...很少读小说会觉得这么无聊,想起前些年看「舞舞舞」也是这么难受... 再次确定村上只是一个拥有众多读者的二流作者。
评分英文版太美妙了,可能是最接近村上本人的译本,我已经不能忍受中文版不知所云的翻译。
评分英文翻译可读性强很多,大概一来村上受英文文学影响太重,二来林少华功力还是不行
评分impressive wording in.the sense that i.can.always.record. story is hmm sometimes way too bizarre. i relate the most with hoshino
评分很早以前看过中文版,我到底有无聊才会花一个月时间把英文有声书听完。。。
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