Haruki Murakami should be familiar to everyone, one of the most popular best-selling authors of the current era, and the well-known Nobel Prize for Literature runner. Since 2009, he has been regarded as a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he has not been able to win the prize so far, and the topic of his "ten thousand years of accompanying running" has even increased everyone's attention to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
But today, let's not talk about the Nobel Prize in Literature, let's uncover another layer of Haruki Murakami's identity - a fanatical music fan.
With his musical elements, he has a very high rate of appearances in his works, which I believe is not difficult for everyone to see. According to his book fans, the music and the names of musicians appear in Haruki Murakami's works more than 800 times, and novels such as "Norwegian Forest", "Dance, Dance", and "South of the Border West of the Sun" are directly taken from the names of musical works.
He also collaborated with the jazz fan Makoto Wada to publish two volumes of "Jazz Group Scores", which introduced 52 jazz masters in the United States in graphic form.
It can be seen that the scale of its "qu library" can be described as quite large.
The road to music "into the pit"
Such a huge library of songs is definitely the result of long-term accumulation.
It is understood that Haruki Murakami was exposed to learning piano in his childhood, which is a level that can read and play simple pieces of music score, which also laid some theoretical foundations for his subsequent "addiction & self-study" music.
In 1964, after the 15-year-old Haruki Murakami first heard the tape of Arte Breckie's concert with the Jazz Messenger Orchestra, he was "completely knocked down like a lightning strike".
Because his parents were not music lovers, there were no records at home, there was no natural environment to hear music, so he began to save all his pocket money to buy jazz records, as long as he had the opportunity to listen to music live, even if he ate less than an empty stomach to listen to music.
In order to be able to hear music all day, after graduation, he also opened a jazz bar "Peter Cat" with his wife, and At that time, Murakami Haru set up his ambition to make music (bar) his lifelong career!
Learn to write from music
After opening a jazz bar, Murakami began to work as a translator of novels and English works while running the storefront.
Until the age of 29, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "I have often felt something similar to music of my own, swirling and rolling in my head intensely and abundantly." Can't you turn these things into article form? ”
In this way, he seemed to have learned from music to get inspiration for writing, embarked on the path of a novelist, and hung all the way.
Not only is he inspired by music, but he also learns how to write articles: he thinks that articles are like music, and can also create a sense of rhythm through the combination of words, the combination of sentences, the combination of paragraphs, the combination of soft and hard and light, the combination of balanced and unbalanced, the combination of punctuation marks and the combination of intonation.
"The music is not good enough, and these are not good enough." If the article has a rhythm and the story has a rhythm, then naturally there will be a fountain of thought. When I write, I automatically convert the text into a sound in my head, using that sound to construct a rhythm. Improvising one theme segment in a jazz style naturally produces the next theme segment. ”
Although a little esoteric, but convincing is there?! In fact, not only Haruki Murakami, but also well-known writers such as Yu Hua, Wang Meng, And Roman Roland have emphasized the influence of music on their works.
Haruki Murakami, who now has about 15,000 records in her home, also started a radio program called "Murakami FM" in 2018, and every day she selects the tracks to be played on the day according to different themes. Originally not good at words, he can chat with everyone through music and enjoy the time of chatting with everyone.
Music has a profound meaning for it, as he once wrote in his book: "Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing the mind and muscles from the endless winter."