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Haruki Murakami's most famous novel is Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which sold more than 7 million copies and is a favorite of many Murakami fans. In China, it is the most discussed by readers and the most influential. Norwegian Wood is indeed refreshingly unpretentious, and Haruki Murakami, who was nearly 40 when he wrote it, said, "When I want to prolong the memory of my youth, I want to write young adult novels." Murakami's goal was "a very easy novel, two or three hundred pages, a beautiful one, the kind of beautiful novel that stays in the memory", or even "a novel that forces the tears out of the eyes of girls all over the country". And he did.
"Norwegian Wood" is regarded by Haruki Murakami himself as an "alternative novel"--"I wrote it in a realistic style in order to show that what is not mine can be done, so I finished as soon as possible as soon as possible to leave. I want to go back to my original world." This "original world" refers to Adventures in Goat Hunting, The End of the World and Cold Wonderland, and Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance!", "The Book of Strange Birds", and the most recent "Sputnik Lovers", which is full of Haruki Murakami's inimitable whimsy.
Haruki Murakami's strange imagery comes mainly from the idea of "two worlds," which is present in almost all of his works. One is the world of daily life, a "cold wonderland" where people eat, sleep, earn a living, and fall in love, and the main character is often in a state outside the mainstream of society, lonely, bored, and not without self-gratification. At the same time, he always receives news from another mysterious dark world, and through the adventures of the protagonist, the relationship between the two worlds gradually unfolds. Haruki Murakami's mysterious world, in "Adventure in Search of Sheep" and "Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance!", the villa in the snowy mountains of Hokkaido, the dark room in the Dolphin Hotel, the town that exists only in the subconscious mind in "The World's End and Cold Wonderland", the dry well in "The Book of Strange Birds", and the mirror world in "Sputnik Lovers". ...... Haruki Murakami is indeed extraordinary, for he is able to write about the reality of life in a trance-like state, with nowhere to place his moods. Haruki Murakami is indeed extraordinary. He can write real life in a trance-like state, with moods that can be placed nowhere, and at the same time add many realistic backgrounds and realistic details to the mysterious world, and at a time when it is difficult to distinguish the real from the unreal, he has already made the novels "psychologically real". He offers us a realistic approach to the world that is at once indifferent and unwavering, peripheral and action-oriented.
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This certainly has to be counted as Haruki Murakami's masterpiece. Many people know this Japanese from this book. The whole book takes memories as a clue to express the lonely confusion of adolescents facing puberty as well as the helplessness and boredom in the face of growing up. Through the existential pain that young people cannot escape from under the pressure of society, Murakami for the first time explicitly emphasizes the theme that he kept repeating in his later books: the sadness and powerlessness of life.
Excerpt:
Midori was silent on the other end of the phone, and remained silent for a long time, as all the fine rain in the world falls on all the lawns in the world. All this time I kept my eyes closed and pressed my forehead against the glass of the phone booth, and after a long time, Midori spoke in a hushed voice:
"Where are you now?"
Where am I now?
I raised my face with the receiver and looked around the phone booth quickly. Where am I now? I don't know where this place is, it's all over my head. I don't know where I am, I don't know what I'm doing. As far as the eye can see, there are countless men and women walking nowhere. I was calling out to Midori from nowhere.