Haruki Murakami's works are full of personal unique style, and familiar people can even know that they are his works by reading one or two pages! His writing is concise and there is no superfluous language. He expressed the helplessness and sadness of modern people through abstract, symbolic, fragmented and allegorical brushstrokes. Although the work seems easy, chewing carefully and thinking deeply has a different taste. Every reader has a different understanding and experience of Haruki Murakami's works, and everyone has a different interpretation of his style. Here, I will briefly cite three articles to illustrate.
The protagonist often has no formal name.
In Haruki Murakami's works, both men and women often have no names, so pronouns are not applicable, or some codes are used instead of names. The protagonist in the novel has no name, only "I" instead of "Listening to the Song of the Wind", "Pinball Toy of 1973", "Looking for Sheep Adventure", "A Lonely Land" and "Dancing". Especially in such a long content as Tianya and a Cold Foreign Land, two different time and space are intertwined, and the protagonist has no name, which really makes people admire his writing skills. Other characters, such as twins of 208 and 209, mouse, Dr. Yang and Niu He, are also represented by code names or nicknames.
Other characters, such as the sheep man and the sea donkey, which appear many times, are illusory characters. What do they represent, are they synonymous with some people in the real world, or are they just the characters created by the author? I'm afraid only Murakami can know!
Use a lot of metaphors.
1. According to him, this number is simpler than a rookie pitcher who hits no hits and runs against the Giants, but it is a little more difficult than a complete suspension. (Listen to the song of the wind)
Naoko shook his head and smiled alone. Those girls whose report cards are full of A's often laugh. (1973 pinball toy)
I feel that her disappearance seems to be helpless in a sense. What has happened is what has happened. It doesn't matter how well we get along these four years. Like an album, all the photos in it have been taken away. (The Adventures of Looking for Sheep)
The water dried up in many places and the bottom of the river was exposed. Hard caked white soil floats, just like the crumpled bodies of huge ancient creatures. (doomsday and cold aliens)
My sleep is like a bargain auction. Everyone took turns running and kicking me to sleep as if I had a baby. (doomsday and cold aliens)
6. My footsteps are like those of people walking on the bottom of the sea, which sounds like they are coming from completely different directions. (Norwegian forest)
7. Green was silent for a long time on the other end of the phone. Just like the rain in Mao Mao all over the world falls on the grass all over the world, the silence continues. (Norwegian forest)
8. Complete darkness is like repeating several layers with black paint, so deep that there is no gap in the darkness. (dancing)
9. So, like a castrated dog, sniffing the bitch's ass with the memory of the past, wandering in the literary world. (dancing)
10. Looking from the slope, the streets with colorful neon lights began to light up, and the expressionless office workers wrapped in black coats flowed at the same speed as the undercurrent salmon. (dancing)
1 1. But after missing Shimamoto, I often feel that I am on the surface of the moon without air. (south of the border, west of the sun)
12. Although it is a meal, it is only about eating hamburgers and pizza at McDonald's. Even so, it is better than the food in the restaurant where the grilled fish looks like a corpse in the hospital. (clockwork bird chronology)
I like to use numbers to describe it.
1. I spent the whole summer with that mouse, as if fascinated by something, and drank the beer in the 25-meter swimming pool. Peeling five centimeters thick peanut shells can cover the floor of Jay's bar. Besides, it's a boring summer, and we can't help it. (Listen to the song of the wind)
2.1August 1969 15 to April 3 of the following year, I attended 358 classes, had sex 54 times and smoked 692 1 cigarette. (Listen to the song of the wind)
3. When the elevator door is closed, close your eyes after making sure there is a compressor sound behind you. Then collect fragments of consciousness and walk sixteen steps from the corridor of the apartment to the door of the room. (The Adventures of Looking for Sheep)
4. So the phone hung up. A bad way to hang up the phone. In order to eliminate the bad aftertaste, I did 30 push-ups and 20 sit-ups before washing dishes and clothes for three days in a row. In this way, my mood almost returned to the original state. (The Adventures of Looking for Sheep)
5. At that time, I kept three 500 yuan copper coins, eighteen 100 yuan copper coins, seven 50 yuan copper coins and sixteen 10 yuan copper coins in my pocket. The total amount is 38 10 yuan, which is no trouble at all. (doomsday and cold aliens)
6. "Thirty-six hours." I said, there is no need to look at the watch. It takes the earth one and a half revolutions. During that time, the evening paper was voted twice and sent once. The alarm clock rings twice and the man shaves twice. Lucky people may have sex between two or three times. (doomsday and cold aliens)
Generally speaking, they often smile. But due to different situations, it can be divided into about 25 kinds of smiling faces. From polite sneer to moderately restrained satisfied smile, there are only a handful of grades of smiling faces. From 1 to 25th (dancing)
I was born on 195 1 year 1 month 4, which was the first week of the first month in the second half of the 20th century. (south of the border, west of the sun)
Let's review Haruki Murakami's works, from Listening to the Wind by 1979 to Kafka by the Sea in 2002, as well as the recent novel After Dark, as well as a collection of short stories and so on. , all have a * * * feature that is easy to find-understatement and special space. The former embodies a realistic living atmosphere, while the latter represents the post-modernism creative concept. In other words, Haruki Murakami's literature, in Japan and even the whole world, can only be said to be a transition from realism to postmodernism. This transition is like a bridge between the cowherd and the weaver girl, hazy and gorgeous, beautiful and blurred. First of all, modernism, postmodernism and the positioning of Haruki Murakami. First of all, we must distinguish between modernism and postmodernism. The so-called modernist literature, also known as modernist literature or modern literature, is an international literary trend of thought popular in Europe and America from 1890 to 1950. Vertically, it inherited classical literature, romantic literature and realistic literature, and then to post-modernism literature. Horizontally, it includes six schools: symbolism literature, expressionism literature, futurism literature, stream of consciousness literature, imagism literature and surrealism literature. Its aesthetic characteristics have an obvious tendency of compounding. They think that individuals can't change the world, so their works are mainly reflected in decadence and cynicism. Most of the stories unfold through the nightmare of the scene, and people can't grasp the actual results, emphasizing "waking up from the possessed state" and "ending the naive state". Postmodernism inherits, transcends and deviates from modernist literature, which is based on irrationalism and shows a fierce anti-traditional tendency. It opposes both the old tradition of realism and the new rules of modernism, advocates infinite openness, diversity and relativity, and opposes the constraints of any norms, models and centers on literary creation. It is easier to accept the popular, commercialized, democratic and popular consumer market than modernism. Its artistic aesthetic scope has been infinitely expanded, including street culture, popular literature, underground culture, advertising language, consumer common sense, life guide and so on. As a representative of Japanese contemporary new literature, Haruki Murakami spent most of his life traveling, interwoven with unique life experiences in the dual cultural atmosphere of Japan and the West, thus showing a more diverse perspective of local culture and foreign culture. As for the present situation of Japanese literature, in Japan, where foreign culture and traditional Japanese literature have been mixed for decades, the lifestyle has long been diversified and has been in post-modernism and post-industrial society. This shows that Haruki Murakami's works have largely moved towards postmodernism, and it is no wonder that many scholars define Haruki Murakami's works as postmodernism. But in fact, Murakami's works can't really belong to postmodernism. We can only position him in a transitional stage-from modernism to postmodernism, which is more manifested as postmodernism. Ms. Gao Wenhui thinks: "Haruki Murakami's creation is indeed full of many postmodern cultural factors, but this does not mean that it is in contradiction with the modernist artistic spirit embodied in his works ... Therefore, it is not advisable to stick to a certain theoretical framework." ⑶ Mr. Wu Yuping, an associate professor at the School of Humanities, Soochow University, called the concept of this change "cultural hybridity" in his article Haruki Murakami: The Manifester of Cultural Miscellanies (Foreign Literature Studies, No.5, 2003), and Haruki Murakami is the manifester of this phenomenon. Therefore, it is scientific and reasonable to position Haruki Murakami's works in a transitional stage, which can also be reflected in his works.