"A stunning work of art," the New York Observer wrote of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, "that bears no comparisons," and this is also true of this magnificent new novel, which is every bit as ambitious, expansive and bewitching. A tour-de-force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters. At fifteen, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister. And the aging Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction, finds his highly simplified life suddenly upset. Their odyssey, as mysterious to us as it is to them, 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 fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle. Yet this, like 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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。
最近一口气读了三本村上春树:1988年的《舞、舞、舞》,1995年的《奇鸟形状录》和2002年的《海边的卡夫卡》。这三个长篇小说都具有充分的奇幻情节,不论情节安排、语言组织还是立意展现,都一部强于一部,尤其《海边的卡夫卡》,基本可以看作是1985年《世界尽头与冷酷仙境》的...
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...
评分缓慢转动的蓝色星球其实被分割为两层。上面一层的人们新鲜蓬勃如初摘水果,他们进商厦购物,进图书馆查阅,进咖啡店吃三明治,去异地旅行;下面一层生存的则是跳脱出人们实体的“活灵”,它们形态各异,也有老人,儿童,中年男女,也有的状似绿植,鸟类,波纹,在这里时间...
评分 评分When you are in the rain, you are part of the rain.
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评分京东买的就这封面,就冲着这封面买的。顺便说,一搜索,感觉英译版的封面设计简直都一个原则——要有猫。
评分京东买的就这封面,就冲着这封面买的。顺便说,一搜索,感觉英译版的封面设计简直都一个原则——要有猫。
评分No matter how sappy Murakami gets, I will never get tired of him. Kafka on the Shore is an archetypical novel, but also a very modern one. It's about how one becomes brave and becomes themselves, accepting the dull truth of the world, while not losing interest. I am so sad to say goodbye to it.
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