Birthday Stories -- Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami

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有關生日的現代短篇小說選集,村上春樹選,也有他的一篇。

出版者:Harvill Press
作者:[日] 村上春樹
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頁數:182
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出版時間:Jan 2004
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裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼: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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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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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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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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太陰暗 棄瞭

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讀這本書純屬偶然。本以為是村上的作品,拿到手纔發現是他選取的英美短片。但讀來著實有趣,和他自己的寫作風味很閤襯。

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很多作傢作品的收錄,有些沒太明白,有些挺有意思的。

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讀這本書純屬偶然。本以為是村上的作品,拿到手纔發現是他選取的英美短片。但讀來著實有趣,和他自己的寫作風味很閤襯。

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太陰暗 棄瞭

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