In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.
A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art – as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby – Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe. Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami’s place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
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这本书的氛围营造达到了令人窒息的水准,它成功地在读者的想象中搭建了一个既熟悉又全然陌生的世界。空气中似乎永远弥漫着某种潮湿的、带着泥土和陈旧纸张气味的微粒。作者对环境细节的描摹,达到了近乎强迫症的程度,每一扇窗户的朝向、每一处光线的角度,都似乎被精确计算过,以服务于整体的心理氛围。这种对环境的极致控制,让读者感觉自己并非在阅读一个故事,而是被“置入”了某个特定的、被精心调制的时空容器中。书中关于“门”、“通道”和“边界”的反复出现,强化了一种持续的不安感——总感觉主角下一秒就会穿过一道门,进入一个全新的、可能更危险的维度。阅读体验非常沉浸,以至于我时常需要停下来,做几次深呼吸,才能将自己从那种压抑但又迷人的氛围中抽离出来,回到现实。这种强烈的代入感,无疑是作者高超的叙事技巧所致。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直是一场精心设计的迷宫,作者在构建世界观时展现出惊人的耐心与野心。开篇部分的铺陈,犹如一层层剥开的洋葱,每一层都带着不同的气味和更深处的秘密。主角的内心挣扎被描绘得淋漓尽致,那种介于现实与幻觉之间的摇摆不定,让我这位读者也跟着心神俱疲。特别是关于“艺术的本质与代价”的探讨,不仅仅是停留在理论层面,而是通过一系列奇诡的事件和人物互动,将抽象的概念具象化了。我印象最深的是对“缺席的意义”的处理,很多关键信息并非直接告知,而是通过留白、通过角色之间的眼神交流和未完成的对话来暗示。这种写作手法要求读者必须全神贯注,甚至需要反复回读才能捕捉到那些转瞬即逝的伏笔。可以说,这本书的文学质感非常厚重,它不满足于仅仅讲述一个故事,它更像是在邀请我们一同参与一场关于存在意义的哲学辩论,只是这场辩论的剧场,被布置得既华丽又令人不安。阅读过程如同潜入深海,越往下越感到压力的增加,但好奇心驱使着你,让你渴望触碰到海底那未知的核心。
评分这本书的结构安排,可以说是大胆到近乎反传统了。它并没有遵循一个清晰的线性时间轴,而是像一个不断折叠和展开的纸艺品,过去、现在和某种预示性的未来在不经意的转折点上相互渗透。我尤其欣赏作者处理“记忆”的方式。记忆在这里不是简单的回忆,而是一种主动参与到当下行动的力量,它既是束缚,也是引导。章节之间的跳跃和回溯,初看时会让人感到困惑,仿佛在迷雾中寻找方向。但细细体会,会发现每一次看似随机的跳跃,都在无形中构建着一个更大的几何图形。那些看似无关紧要的物件或场景,在后续的章节中总会以一种出人意料的方式重新浮现,带着新的含义,完成了某种意义上的“闭环”。这种非线性的叙事,极大地考验了读者的空间想象力。它迫使读者放弃传统小说中对“因果链条”的依赖,转而关注事件之间的“共振”与“呼应”。读完后,合上书本,脑海中留下的是一个不断旋转、相互映射的意象群,而非一个简单的故事结局。
评分从主题深度上来看,这本书毫不避讳地触碰了一些令人不安的议题,特别是关于“创造者与被创造物”之间的权力动态。它探讨了艺术创作如何成为一种近乎宗教性的献祭行为,以及当创作者试图逃离自己作品的引力时所面临的伦理困境。书中对“命名”与“定义”的反复提及,让我思考了语言在构建现实中的绝对权威性。角色们似乎都在努力挣脱被他人或被既定命运所赋予的标签,但每一次挣脱都伴随着巨大的风险。这种对身份认同的深刻挖掘,让我联想到了许多古老的寓言,但作者用现代的、略带疏离感的视角重新诠释了它们。此外,书中对于“沉默”的描写也极为精彩,很多时候,角色们“未曾说出口的话”比他们实际的对话更具份量。这种对内在世界的细致探究,使得全书笼罩着一种永恒的、形而上的紧张感,仿佛我们窥见的是人类心灵深处最隐秘的运作机制。
评分我必须承认,这本书的语言风格是其最引人注目,也最具挑战性的部分。它不像许多当代小说那样追求简洁明快,相反,它沉溺于一种近乎巴洛克式的繁复与华美。作者似乎对手头的每一个词汇都进行了精雕细琢,力求达到一种近乎音乐般的韵律感。很多段落读起来,仿佛置身于一场老式歌剧的咏叹调中,情感的宣泄是克制而又磅礴的。这种风格使得叙事推进显得缓慢,初读时可能会让人感到有些吃力,仿佛在试图解读一份古老的羊皮卷。然而,一旦适应了这种节奏,你会发现其魅力所在——它给予了人物内心活动足够的呼吸空间。角色的每一次呼吸、每一次犹豫,都被细致地解剖开来,展现出人类情感的复杂层次。特别是当叙事焦点转向那些非人或超自然的存在时,那种古典而庄重的语调反而增强了荒诞感和疏离感,使得那些怪异的情节丝毫不显得突兀,反而像是那个世界应有的语言规范。这绝不是一本可以用来打发时间的轻快读物,它要求读者付出专注和耐心,以换取对作者构建的那个独特宇宙的深度理解。
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