The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei's estranged parents live in Kobe. Should he contact them? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm. 'When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes,' says Frog. 'And right now he is very, very angry'.
This new collection of stories, from one of the world's greatest living writers, dissects the violence beneath the surface of modern Japan.
##i'll try to be less cynical, not a bad collection, there are some stories i liked a lot, actually ... wow.
评分##A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It’s free.
评分村上的after the quake里六篇short story,两篇发在纽约客,发在格兰塔杂志的Thailand不知道为什么觉得很是特别,但最喜欢的还是那篇发在GQ的青蛙君拯救东京。跑步时一直在想super frog saves tokyo这个短故事。之所以喜欢这只青蛙,不仅因为他引用尼采和陀斯妥耶夫斯基,更因为它慈悲。当katagiri这个四十岁的loser说自己只是eat,sleep,shit时,青蛙君说了让人感动的话:整个东京只有你才能帮我,我就是要拯救像你这样的人。这大致是蛋与墙的主题了。即便觉得自己活得猪狗不如、了无生趣、一生也就这样了,青蛙还是惦记着你,拼死也要拯救你,即便你从来不知道有这样一只青蛙拯救了世界。
评分##村上春树的短篇小说是凭意像取胜的,像诗歌里的意像一样新颖,准确,例如《UFO》里空空的包裹,《Super frog》里的无私无畏的大青蛙,《Thailand》里长在身体里的石头(如果你有秘密,身体就会有石头)《landscape with Flatiron》里的bonefire,想到这个意像小说已经成功一半了。阅读村上春树的短篇小说非常愉快,所以通常读完沉重的书就读一本。
评分##由日文译为英文,再由文字转为朗读,再由朗读者的声音信号映射成我脑海中的形象,我没有立场说我读懂了村上想要表达的。但还是挺喜欢,一场地震,不仅仅影响了直接受难的人们,也间接影响了主动或被动关注它的人们,继而又影响了与这些人相关的人们……正如地震四散的震波,如涟漪一般,一波一波铺展袭来,久久不能平息。
评分##《神的孩子都跳舞》。从小说奇异的描述中我们看到灾难对日本人的影响:因为灾难一切都变得不可预测,所以享乐主义也无可厚非。灾难创造一个突破口,从前深藏在心底不敢表述的,在目睹了生命的脆弱之后,也倒坦然面对、渲泄、转折了。而灾难有时又是有积极意义的,使在金钱欲望驱使下变得分裂自私的社会人重新聚集起来、发现彼此的存在,共同努力。虽然这样的聚集是短暂的,而人的记忆也那么脆弱与模糊。
评分##不是很好。
评分##I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
评分村上的after the quake里六篇short story,两篇发在纽约客,发在格兰塔杂志的Thailand不知道为什么觉得很是特别,但最喜欢的还是那篇发在GQ的青蛙君拯救东京。跑步时一直在想super frog saves tokyo这个短故事。之所以喜欢这只青蛙,不仅因为他引用尼采和陀斯妥耶夫斯基,更因为它慈悲。当katagiri这个四十岁的loser说自己只是eat,sleep,shit时,青蛙君说了让人感动的话:整个东京只有你才能帮我,我就是要拯救像你这样的人。这大致是蛋与墙的主题了。即便觉得自己活得猪狗不如、了无生趣、一生也就这样了,青蛙还是惦记着你,拼死也要拯救你,即便你从来不知道有这样一只青蛙拯救了世界。
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