Birthday Stories -- Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami

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有关生日的现代短篇小说选集,村上春树选,也有他的一篇。

出版者:Harvill Press
作者:[日] 村上春树
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页数:182
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出版时间:Jan 2004
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装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781843431596
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Birthday Stories, edited by Haruki Murakami, is a slight dose of morphine for those who are waiting for the English translation of his latest novel, Kafka on Shore. This "timeless anthology" of short stories brings the readers to see birthdays at different angles. There are sober birthdays, and also sweet ones. Stories are selected to provide a wide range of writing styles, from contemporary writer Andrea Lee and Ethan Canin to the famous Raymond Craver, Paul Theroux and Murakami himself. Personally, my favourite picks in the book include: "The Moor" by Russell Banks (a man meeting a woman accidentally on her birthday thirty years later and a love affair involving an age difference of decades is revisited); "Timothy's Birthday" (about how Timothy draws away from his parents after his homoosexual partner died in the previous year); "The Birthday Cake" by Daniel Lyons (a mother who insists on not giving away a cake for their children who are not coming home for celebration); "The Bath" by Raymond Craver (the parental worries on concern on the car accdient of their beloved birthday son; the ending is particularly thought-provoking) and "Close to the Water's Edge" by Claire Keegan (an eminent Harvard student failing to change his lifestyle on his birthday).

The first book I picked up by Ethan Canin was his collection of short stories called The Palace Thief. His writing style already haunted me at that time. What amazes me more in his "Angel of Mercy, Angel of Wrath" is his fast-paced plot and the delicate treatment of the psychology of a paranoid and ignored birthday mother. The dialogues are simple but powerful, short by revealing.

Let's talk about the dose of Murakami morphine. His story "Birthday Girl" is simple and consise to bring out the message that no matter what we wish on our birthdays, we are still what we are. Wishes for a change in fact do not, or cannot, change anything at all". This is similar to the everything-happens-for-a-reason theory in Wild Sheel Chase. The birthday girl in the story does not tell the narrator what she wished on her 20th birthday. Does it matter? Her life still goes on like normal.(Remind me of the ending shot in Lost in Translation!)

This anthology is a fast-read. All the stories in the anthology are very solid, nothing pretentious. It is definitely one of the books you may pick out if you have no dates on the forthcoming birthday - a great birthday companion. What should be mentioned here is the poem (or lyrics?) written by Paul Simon at the beginning of the anthology - "Have a good time". How many of us really had a good time on our past birthdays? Or how many of us expected so? Will we have a (un)happy birthday next year? We don't know. But the characters in the stories tell us that they have something to grasp on theirs - the readers.

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特别喜欢这种灰暗的小故事。人生哪有那么多波澜壮阔,更多的就是一些不会轻易过去的痛苦,我们很清楚又很无奈,因为他们是这个世界的一部分。 《摩尔人》:一个中年小演员,在酒馆遇到了一个过八十大寿的老太太,他二十几岁时的忘年恋人。她关心他当年是不是处男,他关心她有过...  

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(刊于《经济观察报》2015年10月26日第39版观察家·书评) 文/俞耕耘 说起生日,它虽然只是一个关于自身,富于纪念的历史时刻,然而却使记忆与愿景共存,欢乐与感伤同在。因为,生日总是既关乎生命原点的追溯,又不断切近死亡的标记。村上春树,这位兼具严肃性与畅销性的作家...  

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印象里很少有以生日为主题的书吧,况且生日似乎也并没有什么值得纪念和有趣的故事发生。村上编的这本生日小说,谈不上多精彩,但多少也令人触动。 论故事最喜欢《生日蛋糕》和《在水边》,论文风最喜欢《摩尔人》和《永远在上》。 每个年纪都有不同的生日,老年的生日,少年...  

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序里写到村上自己过生日的时候想到希望做一本集子,专门收录关于生日的故事。这里面收录的作品有几篇我特别喜欢,《摩尔人》、《生日礼物》等等。村上自己写的《生日女郎》我也蛮喜欢的。其他的也许没有什么很特别的感觉,但是最起码收录的每一篇都不差,都值得一读。 《生日女...  

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读这本书纯属偶然。本以为是村上的作品,拿到手才发现是他选取的英美短片。但读来着实有趣,和他自己的写作风味很合衬。

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读这本书纯属偶然。本以为是村上的作品,拿到手才发现是他选取的英美短片。但读来着实有趣,和他自己的写作风味很合衬。

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购于华沙火车站。村上自己写的birthday girl其实并没有很看懂 倒是很应景的。。。还是好喜欢Claire Keegan!选集很用心呀好评!

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读这本书纯属偶然。本以为是村上的作品,拿到手才发现是他选取的英美短片。但读来着实有趣,和他自己的写作风味很合衬。

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很多作家作品的收录,有些没太明白,有些挺有意思的。

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