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).
发表于2024-12-22
Kafka on the Shore 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
20世纪上半叶,两次世界大战几乎毁灭了人类苦心经营了十几个世纪的物质财富,把芸芸众生推入了痛苦的深渊。战后的日本百业待兴,经济在本国的内需和美国的经济援助下飞速发展,而从硝烟弥漫的战场和残垣断壁的废墟中走出来的年轻一代,在被迫融入这个高速发展的资本主义社会时...
评分似乎每个少年都有过离家出走的冲动。厌倦于日复一日单调的家庭生活,于是向往着远方未知的历险。当然,真正的叛逆者并不多,那只是我们青春岁月短暂的幻想之旅而已。但是,这种冲动潜伏在我们的血液中,成为许多人长大成人后写作的动力。 村上春树的小说都来源于他年轻时的经...
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...
评分昨天才读完《海边的卡夫卡》,倒真如奥地利作家弗兰兹卡夫卡作品般荒谬,这本书拖拖踏踏读了差不多一个月才读完,看到最后一句时,总有种莫名的空虚感,却无法从中感到什么实质性的思考。直到隔了一天,午睡苏醒时才像是触电般感到——这是一个十五岁少年对荒谬世界的初步认知...
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...
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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.
for the very first time found out that English is so much easier to be understood than Chinese... too much descriptions though...beautifully adapted:)
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。。。
评分奇异的剧情,特别的主角,分线叙事,不过不变的是村上春树那隽永的文字,还有浓浓的和风。
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。。。
评分The theme intangible to me
Kafka on the Shore 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书