The End of the World and Grim Wonderland

"People do not achieve immortality by extending time, but achieve immortality by decomposing time." Haruki Murakami is that kind of writer. Before you read him, and after you read him, you will be completely two different types of people. ★Fresh and strange urban fable, a masterpiece of Murakami's dual-line writing. As long as you have the heart, you will lose nothing wherever you go. ★The major Chinese publishers of Haruki Murakami's works and the translator Lin Shaohua join hands to jointly present a new revised edition of the hardcover series of Haruki Murakami's long works. ★Collaborating with the internationally renowned illustrator Noma Bar, the three colors of black, white and red depict the subtle blur in Murakami's works between the square and the circle. The overall presentation is both simple and classic. ★In terms of content, a lot of revisions have been made around foreign words, and the details that the author intentionally added emphasis in the original version have been restored. ★Lin Shaohua has updated the translation prefaces of many works and made minor adjustments to some of the tone and expressions in the translations. ★Supplement to the chronology of Haruki Murakami [Introduction] The novel has a total of forty chapters, narrated in the first person. The structure of the novel adopts the form of two intersecting and parallel lines, consisting of two seemingly completely unrelated storylines. The twenty odd-numbered chapters are "Cold Wonderland" and the even-numbered chapters are "The End of the World". The two stories seem to be unrelated, but in fact the "I" in the two stories are essentially two sides of the same person. The "I" in "Cold Wonderland" is the actual real world, and the "I" in "The End of the World" is the virtual world in the subconscious. "I" is in a state of self-division and is at a loss to deal with all the fluctuations. The tragedy arises precisely because "I" am unable to change the two worlds and feel confused and helpless. Both plots are extremely absurd, and the novel uses a deformed technique to express the author's understanding of contemporary capitalist society. "End of the World" can see the shadow of Kafka's "The Castle", which is relatively gentle and depressing. The "Cold Wonderland" part is full of American hard-boiled detective novels and science fiction, with a twists and turns and tense plot.