Kafka on the Shore
About This Novel
"Kafka on the Shore" is an important novel by Haruki Murakami, comparable to "Norwegian Wood" as a mature work. It has been translated into more than fifty languages and has sold over one million copies. The book specially includes Haruki Murakami's first preface for Chinese readers. The book unfolds with two parallel lines in Murakami's unique style. One describes the young man "Kafka Tamura" who aspires to become the toughest person in the world and leaves his hometown to embark on a journey and encounters a series of strange events in an old library. The other describes an amnesiac old man who embarks on the road to escape after a bizarre murder incident and recovers his distant war memories with the help of car driver Hoshino. While constructing a magical real world and weaving exquisite and complex plots, the book also expresses concerns about the resurgence of Japanese militarism and reflects on Japan's cultural traditions. The translator, Professor Lin Shaohua, revised the translation and corrected some mistranslations and omissions. He also wrote a new translation preface and conducted an in-depth analysis of the meaning of the work.
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Official(35)Scraped 23d ago
I watched it when I was in my second year of high school. It had a sense of fulfillment at that time. The son fulfilled his father's madness and his mother's persistent love. The most profound comment in it was that unlike the desperate and mediocre uncles in their 30s and 40s, the protagonist is just a child between an adult and a teenager. He will not be trapped by the city or life, and has many possibilities. We all love that youth period when teenagers don't know what it's like to be sad! Regarding the topic of Kafka on the Seaside, I think of the time when I longed for the seaside, as if the sea could accommodate everything. That distressed young man, I believe that one day, he will find everything he has on the seaside, including the lost love.
I like his assassination knight leader very much, and I think the author's idea is very strange! I really like this style of writing.
Kafka is Murakami's first book. If you start from Norway (then you probably won't be able to get started). The determination and tenderness are just right. When you get older, you can suddenly feel the abstract evil. Rereading it becomes a necessity and a gift.
That is, through human spiritual growth, soul and dignity can emerge freely.
The perfect combination of fantasy and reality. I admire the Japanese for writing fantasy.
Another classic
troubled boy
In fact, I didn't understand this book, and I didn't want to speculate on why the author wrote this book. I just followed my own ideas, which felt fantastic and depressing. I don't know why I wanted to accompany this picture, it's probably just what I had in mind. In this way.
Can't it be read aloud by a human voice?
About my first experience reading a novel written by Haruki Murakami
First of all, the concept of this novel is very bold, with a strong surrealist style, and it can hardly be called a "science fiction novel". Secondly, "Kafka on the Shore" adopts the development of dual plots. The literary style and the author's style should also echo each other, and it has a sense of otherworldliness. In my eyes, the 15-year-old Tamura Kafka and the 60-year-old Nakata, as the protagonists of the dual plots, were not involved in the early stages of the story, so I felt that I didn't know this at first. What is this book about? The development of the story also connects them with the "entrance stone" in the lyrics written by Saeki, Kafka's mother. Until the final closing of the entrance stone, the development of the story has reached its ending. Kafka and Nakata found what they wanted, Nakata died in an ordinary way, and Kafka found the meaning of life. For myself, this novel is indeed a bit unpredictable, and if I don't read it carefully, I can't fully grasp the details of the story. Finally, as an ending, this should be the end of the story😄. The relationship between Kafka and his mother Saeki is even more transcendent , which is also a reflection of the surrealism of this book. This book also reminds me of the suspense novel "The Scream" written by Ye Zhenzhong that I read before, which also has a similar dual plot development, but the ending of the heroine is not revealed, leaving a lot of suspense.
The focus of the Confucius Temple scenic spot, the target of The Great Gatsby,
Otherwise, when would Gan Su suddenly admire Ciruno?
Without a good story, no matter how beautiful the emotions and metaphors are, they will have no soul.
A record of my feelings after reading Kafka on the Shore for the first time: it contains all kinds of dramatic emotions, cognition and thinking about oneself. But the materials seem to have been put together. Except for the boy's behavior that can be explained, the other people's behaviors are all artificial and irrational. It's like making up the plot while writing. I want to tell a story through metaphor, but this in itself destroys the story, and the forced metaphor has no meaning, and there is essentially no plot. All metaphors should be based on a reasonable and interesting story, but letting the metaphors overshadow the story in the article is a deviant approach, and the metaphors are made up randomly. All the plots may have no plots, and they want to rely on metaphors, which makes the story false and the feelings illusory and unreal. It's really a waste of time... Experimental novel, pitfalls, not recommended. I really hope the master will read the next door: Life of Pi
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Official(35)Scraped 23d ago
I watched it when I was in my second year of high school. It had a sense of fulfillment at that time. The son fulfilled his father's madness and his mother's persistent love. The most profound comment in it was that unlike the desperate and mediocre uncles in their 30s and 40s, the protagonist is just a child between an adult and a teenager. He will not be trapped by the city or life, and has many possibilities. We all love that youth period when teenagers don't know what it's like to be sad! Regarding the topic of Kafka on the Seaside, I think of the time when I longed for the seaside, as if the sea could accommodate everything. That distressed young man, I believe that one day, he will find everything he has on the seaside, including the lost love.
I like his assassination knight leader very much, and I think the author's idea is very strange! I really like this style of writing.
Kafka is Murakami's first book. If you start from Norway (then you probably won't be able to get started). The determination and tenderness are just right. When you get older, you can suddenly feel the abstract evil. Rereading it becomes a necessity and a gift.
That is, through human spiritual growth, soul and dignity can emerge freely.
The perfect combination of fantasy and reality. I admire the Japanese for writing fantasy.
Another classic
troubled boy
In fact, I didn't understand this book, and I didn't want to speculate on why the author wrote this book. I just followed my own ideas, which felt fantastic and depressing. I don't know why I wanted to accompany this picture, it's probably just what I had in mind. In this way.
Can't it be read aloud by a human voice?
About my first experience reading a novel written by Haruki Murakami
First of all, the concept of this novel is very bold, with a strong surrealist style, and it can hardly be called a "science fiction novel". Secondly, "Kafka on the Shore" adopts the development of dual plots. The literary style and the author's style should also echo each other, and it has a sense of otherworldliness. In my eyes, the 15-year-old Tamura Kafka and the 60-year-old Nakata, as the protagonists of the dual plots, were not involved in the early stages of the story, so I felt that I didn't know this at first. What is this book about? The development of the story also connects them with the "entrance stone" in the lyrics written by Saeki, Kafka's mother. Until the final closing of the entrance stone, the development of the story has reached its ending. Kafka and Nakata found what they wanted, Nakata died in an ordinary way, and Kafka found the meaning of life. For myself, this novel is indeed a bit unpredictable, and if I don't read it carefully, I can't fully grasp the details of the story. Finally, as an ending, this should be the end of the story😄. The relationship between Kafka and his mother Saeki is even more transcendent , which is also a reflection of the surrealism of this book. This book also reminds me of the suspense novel "The Scream" written by Ye Zhenzhong that I read before, which also has a similar dual plot development, but the ending of the heroine is not revealed, leaving a lot of suspense.
The focus of the Confucius Temple scenic spot, the target of The Great Gatsby,
Otherwise, when would Gan Su suddenly admire Ciruno?
Without a good story, no matter how beautiful the emotions and metaphors are, they will have no soul.
A record of my feelings after reading Kafka on the Shore for the first time: it contains all kinds of dramatic emotions, cognition and thinking about oneself. But the materials seem to have been put together. Except for the boy's behavior that can be explained, the other people's behaviors are all artificial and irrational. It's like making up the plot while writing. I want to tell a story through metaphor, but this in itself destroys the story, and the forced metaphor has no meaning, and there is essentially no plot. All metaphors should be based on a reasonable and interesting story, but letting the metaphors overshadow the story in the article is a deviant approach, and the metaphors are made up randomly. All the plots may have no plots, and they want to rely on metaphors, which makes the story false and the feelings illusory and unreal. It's really a waste of time... Experimental novel, pitfalls, not recommended. I really hope the master will read the next door: Life of Pi
