Sleep
by (japanese) Haruki Murakami (germany) Carter Manschketu
About This Novel
I didn't sleep a wink for 17 days. 17 Days, 17 nights, a sleepless world, what can you do? Before writing "Sleep", Haruki Murakami was forty years old. He encountered a low point in writing and life, and his heart gradually became hard and cold. He traveled to Greece and Türkiye for a month. The following spring, the freeze in his heart gradually softened, and he wrote this story almost in one go. "Sleep" describes the "extreme discovery" of people in an extreme state. It contains both Kafka's indifference and absurdity, and Edgar Allan Poe's thrilling suspense. It gives people a strong shock after reading it. "Sleep" is carefully illustrated by a famous German painter. Together with the beautiful text, it is known as "Haruki Murakami's most beautiful book so far." The Awakening of Haruki Murakami! In a sleepless world, what can you do?
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Official(9)Scraped 6d ago
How does a person go to the road of destruction?
At first, the protagonist was tired of being unable to sleep, and at the same time tired of the mechanized life every day, he wanted to change himself and not want to stay the same. By chance, she re-read Anna Karenina, which brought her back to her passionate years. This reading has been out of control since then. She believes that the time without sleeping gives her more time to do the things she likes, and can expand the breadth of her life. For this reason, once she has more free time to read, swim, and live a life that she thinks is meaningful, there is nothing wrong with this, but it just takes up too much sleeping time. She didn't do these things before because she had too little time to take care of her children and husband's trivial matters. However, these things never occupied her entire life, but she thought her husband and children restricted her. From being unable to sleep due to fear to being unable to sleep due to habit, it becomes a habit in an instant. It reminds me of a passage in The Shawshank Redemption, which says that when you first go to prison, you hate the high walls around you; slowly you get used to living in them; eventually you will find that you have to rely on them to survive. This is institutionalization. When she was going to see a doctor, she was afraid that it would deprive her of her enjoyment and she would no longer be able to read or swim. When she wanted to sleep, she went to the library to learn about it on her own. She saw a book that said that she would lose the foundation of her existence, but she thought that even if she went crazy, she didn't care. She was also afraid that sleeping would kill her, so she delayed sleeping. She felt that reading could expand her life, so she should not waste time sleeping. She watched Anna Karenina three times and felt that she was superior to the author. Ever since she read when she fell asleep, she had not wanted to change. She refused to do anything that violated her reading. She was trapped in her comfort zone and didn't know how to get out. She believed that reading could improve herself, but the essence of reading was also a comfort zone. If you immersed yourself in it for a long time, you would feel pleasure and feel that you could do anything. But what's the use of just reading without being in line with society? So what if he surpasses Leo Tolstoy? She also repeats her life from one life machine to another, which seems to be a cycle and cannot change this normal life. Perhaps the protagonist is yearning for a life of freedom and freedom without too many constraints, and does not really want to change the boring life. Although there is no such person in reality who does not sleep for a long time, most people still like to be trapped in their own comfort zone and are unwilling to change. They stick to their own one-third of an acre and are complacent. They do not have a good understanding of themselves. When they want to change, I am afraid it will be too late like the characters in the novel.
Just because the subject matter is related to "insomnia", I was very interested in choosing this book and read it from beginning to end. However, nothing was gained. I didn't feel the same way, and I didn't learn anything from it. The fragrant descriptions of chocolate in some paragraphs tempted me to eat a large piece of high-calorie Dove milk chocolate that had been stored for a long time. Of course, the binding is still very beautiful, even though it is an e-book. It also features intricately decorated illustrations. These words that take two hours to swallow, if you expect them to be cured, are actually far less comforting and resonant than Marquez's words - "Insomnia is a plague of the times."
Watching Haruki Murakami for the first time.
Haruki Murakami's works are all beautiful!
The original work is more exciting than the translation! Read all of his works! Worth reading! It's a pity that I have always missed the Nobel Prize in Literature!
Untitled
Short, I don't understand why, but I read it carefully, and I understand the confusion and darkness that sleep brings to everyone. Start to be understood start to become accepting and fall asleep better.
How do people become useless? . . This book is very heavy and philosophical
Exists only for you and me.
To know how to enrich oneself
Thinking about the meaning of life, a mechanical life~
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Official(9)Scraped 6d ago
How does a person go to the road of destruction?
At first, the protagonist was tired of being unable to sleep, and at the same time tired of the mechanized life every day, he wanted to change himself and not want to stay the same. By chance, she re-read Anna Karenina, which brought her back to her passionate years. This reading has been out of control since then. She believes that the time without sleeping gives her more time to do the things she likes, and can expand the breadth of her life. For this reason, once she has more free time to read, swim, and live a life that she thinks is meaningful, there is nothing wrong with this, but it just takes up too much sleeping time. She didn't do these things before because she had too little time to take care of her children and husband's trivial matters. However, these things never occupied her entire life, but she thought her husband and children restricted her. From being unable to sleep due to fear to being unable to sleep due to habit, it becomes a habit in an instant. It reminds me of a passage in The Shawshank Redemption, which says that when you first go to prison, you hate the high walls around you; slowly you get used to living in them; eventually you will find that you have to rely on them to survive. This is institutionalization. When she was going to see a doctor, she was afraid that it would deprive her of her enjoyment and she would no longer be able to read or swim. When she wanted to sleep, she went to the library to learn about it on her own. She saw a book that said that she would lose the foundation of her existence, but she thought that even if she went crazy, she didn't care. She was also afraid that sleeping would kill her, so she delayed sleeping. She felt that reading could expand her life, so she should not waste time sleeping. She watched Anna Karenina three times and felt that she was superior to the author. Ever since she read when she fell asleep, she had not wanted to change. She refused to do anything that violated her reading. She was trapped in her comfort zone and didn't know how to get out. She believed that reading could improve herself, but the essence of reading was also a comfort zone. If you immersed yourself in it for a long time, you would feel pleasure and feel that you could do anything. But what's the use of just reading without being in line with society? So what if he surpasses Leo Tolstoy? She also repeats her life from one life machine to another, which seems to be a cycle and cannot change this normal life. Perhaps the protagonist is yearning for a life of freedom and freedom without too many constraints, and does not really want to change the boring life. Although there is no such person in reality who does not sleep for a long time, most people still like to be trapped in their own comfort zone and are unwilling to change. They stick to their own one-third of an acre and are complacent. They do not have a good understanding of themselves. When they want to change, I am afraid it will be too late like the characters in the novel.
Just because the subject matter is related to "insomnia", I was very interested in choosing this book and read it from beginning to end. However, nothing was gained. I didn't feel the same way, and I didn't learn anything from it. The fragrant descriptions of chocolate in some paragraphs tempted me to eat a large piece of high-calorie Dove milk chocolate that had been stored for a long time. Of course, the binding is still very beautiful, even though it is an e-book. It also features intricately decorated illustrations. These words that take two hours to swallow, if you expect them to be cured, are actually far less comforting and resonant than Marquez's words - "Insomnia is a plague of the times."
Watching Haruki Murakami for the first time.
Haruki Murakami's works are all beautiful!
The original work is more exciting than the translation! Read all of his works! Worth reading! It's a pity that I have always missed the Nobel Prize in Literature!
Untitled
Short, I don't understand why, but I read it carefully, and I understand the confusion and darkness that sleep brings to everyone. Start to be understood start to become accepting and fall asleep better.
How do people become useless? . . This book is very heavy and philosophical
Exists only for you and me.
To know how to enrich oneself
Thinking about the meaning of life, a mechanical life~
