Source: Modern Haruki Murakami 1Q84
Excerpt from the original text: After the train left Tokyo Station, he took out books from his library and began to read. This is a collection of short stories with the theme of travel. One of them tells the story of a young man traveling to a small town ruled by cats.
The title is "Cat City". This is a fantastic story written by a German writer who has never heard of it. According to the introduction, this novel was written between World War I and World War II.
Synopsis: A young man came to a small town ruled by cats, which was an empty city without human beings. Cats go to the store to shop, go to the city hall to go through the formalities, and eat in the hotel restaurant. They are drinking beer and singing happy cat songs in the bar. Later, the cat smelled the human, but could not see this guy. The young man realized that everything in front of him was just an illusion.
Extended data:
Working background:
The story of 1Q84 is told on two lines (BOOK3 is three lines), and the story is told from the perspective of third-person omniscience that Haruki Murakami rarely uses. The story tells the story of the encounter between the hero "Tianwu" and the heroine "Mung Bean" in the "unknown Q world" created by "nobody".
Appreciation of works:
Cat City is just a place. In a certain place, the protagonist is more lonely and helpless, but it highlights the significance of survival in the real world. The author expresses here that man is not an island. In that world, Tianwu is a heterogeneous existence, which will bring a sense of terror and crisis to cats in Cat City. At the same time, Tianwu was repelled by everything around him as sharp and tough as a spear.