"Everything must have both an entrance and an exit. There is no other choice." 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.
"Pinball in 1973" is Haruki Murakami's second novel. Together with "Hear the Wind Sing" and "Sheep Hunting Adventures", it is called the "Youth Trilogy". It is a growth work that combines all the elements of Murakami's writing, writing strange stories about alienation, love and obsession.
In 1973, along with the memories of college life and the passing of his college girlfriend Naoko, "I" graduated from college and made a living as an English translator. I accidentally met a pair of twin girls, and then we went together to find a "pinball machine" in the bar where Rat and I often went three years ago. Finally, we found the legendary pinball machine stored there with dozens of other pinball machines in an old chicken farm warehouse. After being lost and found, he just left indifferently. Then "I" and the twin girls separated and returned to their own loneliness.
At the same time, Rat, who dropped out of college three years ago and has lost his sense of reality, hangs out between the bar of the Japanese-Chinese hero and the apartment of his girlfriend who works in an architect's office. After some psychological struggle, he finally decided to leave his close friend Jie and his beloved girlfriend, pack his bags and stay away from his hometown.
Reader comments
It's beautiful. I have a deep resonance with that feeling of loneliness that transcends time and space. I have always wanted something in the past just to satisfy a fantasy about something. But when you really get it, there is an indescribable feeling of emptiness. I often think about what it is for, whether it is not worth it, or what is going on, and there is a feeling in my heart. The idea is that after seeing it, my thoughts returned to my childhood. I would think, can the me now really satisfy my childhood self? The answer is mostly no, because the longed-for future is definitely close to perfect, but it cannot be said to be annoying, because in order to satisfy my childhood self, I have done my best.
If we only make a horizontal comparison, then people are definitely unhappy in this life, so we have to look at it from a universal perspective. We come from a molecule in our parents' bodies, and now we have become little adults. Why haven't we experienced various emotions and have been growing from them?
I've had a similar experience, desperately trying to find something, but once I found it, it didn't feel interesting anymore. But this book made me understand that life may be like this, and sometimes the things we pursue may not really be that important. Like that pinball machine, it is just a symbol of our lost youth and memories.
Haruki Murakami's novel is very powerful because readers don't know what strange situations the author will write about in the next second. Living with twins, they can't tell which one is the older sister and which one is the younger sister. Therefore, one is named 205 and the other is named 206 based on the jersey, which is simply incredible. Because of my obsession with bullet heads, I have been looking for game consoles that are no longer popular for three years, which writes about the emptiness in my heart. There is also a person named Mouse Ai who falls in love in a cemetery. This setting is no one else. There are many bizarre scenes. In short, the author writes about the emptiness of some people and the emptiness caused by lack of goals.
Personally, I feel like the Norwegian forest > Kafka on the beach > Listen to the wind > Pinball in 1973. I went to Douban and looked it up. The ratings of the version I read were 8.5>8.0>7.8>7.5. It seems that Douban still has some reference value.
Pinball in 1973. Pinball has no meaning. It is meaningful in 1973. The past has no meaning. The meaning lies in being able to become a memory. At that time, it was just ordinary. After passing, all things are empty.
This book seems to have no idea what it is about. However, according to my understanding, it is actually very clear about nothingness. It has a strong sense of the heaviness of the times, but it has a feeling of nothingness. It's not just from the author's era. Now, I can feel that nihility is spreading more and more in the contemporary era, especially among today's young people. Although this novel does not provide any solution, I think those who are confused and emptied out, or will be confused and emptied out, should be very touched after reading it.
Venus is a hot, cloud-shrouded star. Due to the heat and humidity, most of the residents lived short lives. Living for thirty years becomes a legend. Only in this way are they loving, and all Venusians love all Venusians. They do not resent others, do not envy, do not look down upon, do not speak ill of others, do not fight or kill. There is just love and care.
"Even if someone dies today, we will not be sad," said a quiet man born on Venus. "We love as much as we can while we are alive so as not to regret it later."
"You mean you have to love first?"
"I don't quite understand your language!" He shook his head.
"Can it really be done smoothly?" I tried to ask.
"If not," he said, "Venus would be drowned in sorrow."
I let go of my obsession with pinball, and Rat let go of my obsession with women.
Why are there only 20,000 words [Inquiry]
I didn't understand it a bit. The plot of the story was a bit jumpy, but I was very touching. Life is the same. I spent my whole life in a daze. After reading the book of life, I found that the stories I wrote were also so jumpy and sentimental.
Everyone has the feeling of loneliness, even though they are accompanied by twins, they still can't let it go
Why does it feel like the plot is a little less than what was summarized in the previous introduction?
I have always been a loyal viewer of Haruki Murakami's strange narratives
Listen to the Wind Sings seems to be his sequel. The writing style is always fresh and refined, and the character dialogues are concise.
It's beautiful. I have a deep resonance with that feeling of loneliness that transcends time and space. I have always wanted something in the past just to satisfy a fantasy about something. But when you really get it, there is an indescribable feeling of emptiness. I often think about what it is for, whether it is not worth it, or what is going on, and there is a feeling in my heart. The idea is that after seeing it, my thoughts returned to my childhood. I would think, can the me now really satisfy my childhood self? The answer is mostly no, because the longed-for future is definitely close to perfect, but it cannot be said to be annoying, because in order to satisfy my childhood self, I have done my best. If we only make a horizontal comparison, then people are definitely unhappy in this life, so we have to look at it from a universal perspective. We come from a molecule in our parents' bodies, and now we have become little adults. Why haven't we experienced various emotions and have been growing from them?
I've had a similar experience, desperately trying to find something, but once I found it, it didn't feel interesting anymore. But this book made me understand that life may be like this, and sometimes the things we pursue may not really be that important. Like that pinball machine, it is just a symbol of our lost youth and memories.
Haruki Murakami's novel is very powerful because readers don't know what strange situations the author will write about in the next second. Living with twins, they can't tell which one is the older sister and which one is the younger sister. Therefore, one is named 205 and the other is named 206 based on the jersey, which is simply incredible. Because of my obsession with bullet heads, I have been looking for game consoles that are no longer popular for three years, which writes about the emptiness in my heart. There is also a person named Mouse Ai who falls in love in a cemetery. This setting is no one else. There are many bizarre scenes. In short, the author writes about the emptiness of some people and the emptiness caused by lack of goals.
Personally, I feel like the Norwegian forest > Kafka on the beach > Listen to the wind > Pinball in 1973. I went to Douban and looked it up. The ratings of the version I read were 8.5>8.0>7.8>7.5. It seems that Douban still has some reference value.
Pinball in 1973. Pinball has no meaning. It is meaningful in 1973. The past has no meaning. The meaning lies in being able to become a memory. At that time, it was just ordinary. After passing, all things are empty.
This book seems to have no idea what it is about. However, according to my understanding, it is actually very clear about nothingness. It has a strong sense of the heaviness of the times, but it has a feeling of nothingness. It's not just from the author's era. Now, I can feel that nihility is spreading more and more in the contemporary era, especially among today's young people. Although this novel does not provide any solution, I think those who are confused and emptied out, or will be confused and emptied out, should be very touched after reading it.
Venus is a hot, cloud-shrouded star. Due to the heat and humidity, most of the residents lived short lives. Living for thirty years becomes a legend. Only in this way are they loving, and all Venusians love all Venusians. They do not resent others, do not envy, do not look down upon, do not speak ill of others, do not fight or kill. There is just love and care. "Even if someone dies today, we will not be sad," said a quiet man born on Venus. "We love as much as we can while we are alive so as not to regret it later." "You mean you have to love first?" "I don't quite understand your language!" He shook his head. "Can it really be done smoothly?" I tried to ask. "If not," he said, "Venus would be drowned in sorrow."
I let go of my obsession with pinball, and Rat let go of my obsession with women.
Why are there only 20,000 words [Inquiry]
I didn't understand it a bit. The plot of the story was a bit jumpy, but I was very touching. Life is the same. I spent my whole life in a daze. After reading the book of life, I found that the stories I wrote were also so jumpy and sentimental.
Everyone has the feeling of loneliness, even though they are accompanied by twins, they still can't let it go
Why does it feel like the plot is a little less than what was summarized in the previous introduction?
I have always been a loyal viewer of Haruki Murakami's strange narratives
Listen to the Wind Sings seems to be his sequel. The writing style is always fresh and refined, and the character dialogues are concise.
Murakami's youth trilogy is really well written