Book review of Norwegian Forests

Norwegian Forest is a 1987 romance novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.

This is the only romance novel by a Japanese writer I read in high school. It was also funny to say, at that time, I read this book to have a common topic with a girl, so I borrowed it to see. I looked at it and decided to abandon the book. At that time, it seemed that the male protagonist Watanabe was a neurosis, and the female protagonist was even worse.

The second time I read the book was in the university's "Mao Outline" theory class, saying that it was to cope with the task of the tutor, it was better to say that it was to show off its reading. The experience was particularly new, I told the story of the book from memory in the large classroom, and confessed in front of all the students that the characters in the book were crazy. Teachers and classmates refuted my point of view, and I was strong and eloquent. In the end, the mentor simply said that everyone reads every book differently, and there is no right or wrong. After class, I read the book again on the computer and read the whole book in three days. This time I read carefully, due to the subconscious preconceptions, many of the words in the book are not fluent, and the story makes me close my eyes in disgust. In my eyes it cannot be a "masterpiece".

The third reading time, the first time after the unemployment and loss of love, this reading I read in a library in a district of Shanghai. It was also a coincidence that the book was placed on the top of the bookshelf and had not yet been sorted out, so I took the seat and began to turn it over, but this time the feeling was completely different.

What this book describes is not love, nor is it describing sadness, but "the loneliness of the times."

Again, everything described in the book is describing the "loneliness of the times", depression, loneliness, choice, escape, abandonment, and wandering. The book is not describing the characters, nor is it describing the story.

Are we really watching Watanabe choose Naoko and Midoriko? No, we don't care which one the hero chooses, and whoever he chooses will lose more. Whether or not it is all an escape, Murakami Jun decisively writes that Naoko chooses to die, the same choice as the early Kizuki, further adding weight to the hero's subsequent escape.

This book is amplifying, amplifying emotions, pleasure or pain, having or losing, will be infinitely magnified, when it is not precious, when it is lost, it is wandering and looking.

Man is not God, and even if you are the protagonist of the book, you may get nothing.

The years are good, and it is good and cherished.