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Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy Kafka Tamura who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons thatlike the most basic activities of daily life he cannot fathom.As their paths converge and the reasons for that convergence become clear Harnki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk fish fall from the sky and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers
备受瞩目的村上春树新作《海边的卡夫卡》,今年一月由日本达文西杂志读者票选为2002年度书榜第一名,让读者爆发出“饥渴阅读”的热烈回响,魅力惊人。村上自从踏入文坛就受到读者的拥戴,历20多年来声势不坠,近几年迈向世界化“村上现象”正逐步加温,这本长篇的推出,让许多评论者不禁赞叹“村上离诺贝尔奖越来越近了”。 这是一个自开始阅读的瞬间,就能让人忘却现实时间、不忍释手的故事。许多读者都提到“《海边的卡夫卡》让人重拾阅读小说的快感,想尽快得知结局,读完后却又有种可惜已将故事看完的复杂心情。”评论者及读者们都推崇这部作品堪称村上春树数一数二的代表作,这点也是获得10岁到40岁年龄层读者广大支持的理由。 小说善于设置悬念,情节的展开每每出人意料,凝缩紧凑,漫溢着诱使读者手不释卷地一气读完全篇的牵引力。梦在这部小说中似乎具有隐喻的意义。作者摧毁了梦与真实、现实与超现实、此世与彼世之间难以攀越的高墙,填平了横亘于人世与异界之间不可逾越的鸿沟,创立了一整套独自的逻辑话语。人物塑造也特点鲜明,不无神秘并充满现代性与象征性。“这部作品似乎可以视为揭露人类自身固有邪恶的小说,也可以说是探索摆脱自我孤独的僵壳的小说”,一位批评家如是说。 村上春树新长篇小说半年热销日本80万册。在本书中村上春树首次为中国读者作序。《海边的卡夫卡》中背负命运诅咒的少年远走异乡,心在希望与绝望之间碰撞,世界在现实性与虚拟性之间游移。小说力图通过十五岁少年的眼睛来描绘这样一个世界。
内容简介
Comprising two distinct but interrelated plots, the narrative runs back and forth between the two, taking up each plotline in alternating chapters.
The odd chapters tell the 15 year old Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister.[4] After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in Takamatsu, run by the distant and aloof Miss Saeki and the intelligent and more welcoming Oshima. There he spends his days reading the unabridged Richard Francis Burton translation of A Thousand and One Nights and the collected works of Natsume Sōseki until the police begin inquiring after him in connection with a brutal murder.
The even chapters tell Nakata's story. Due to his uncanny abilities, he has found part-time work in his old age as a finder of lost cats (a clear reference to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle). The case of one particular lost cat puts him on a path that ultimately takes him far away from his home, ending up on the road for the first time in his life. He befriends a truck-driver named Hoshino. Hoshino takes him on as a passenger in his truck and soon becomes very attached to the old man.
Nakata and Kafka are on a collision course throughout the novel, but their convergence takes place as much on a metaphysical plane as it does in reality and, in fact, that can be said of the novel itself. Due to the Oedipal theme running through much of the novel, Kafka on the Shore has been called a modern Greek tragedy.
作者简介
Murakami was born in Japan during the post–World War II baby boom.Although born in Kyoto, he spent his youth in Shukugawa (Nishinomiya), Ashiya and Kobe.His father was the son of a Buddhist priest,and his mother the daughter of an Osaka merchant.Both taught Japanese literature.
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 (jazz bar, in the evening) "Peter Cat" in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife.They ran the bar from 1974 until 1981.
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 overture), 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).
Murakami is a keen marathon runner and triathlete, although he did not start running until he was 33 years old. On June 23, 1996, he completed his first ultramarathon, a 100-kilometer race around Lake Saroma in Hokkaido, Japan. He discusses his relationship with running in his 2008 work What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
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