<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the opening words: No matter how mediocre and boring the world is, it is my world after all. </h1>
The duel between the evil star-spotted sheep and the human soul, the interweaving of temptation and destruction, the companionship of loneliness and sorrow.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > an overview of the novel</h1>
I received a picture of a good friend rat with a prairie and a flock of sheep, the most special of which was a sheep with a star-spotted wool, which I later used as an advertising page for an insurance company. Suddenly, one day, a man in black invited me to the home of a war criminals officer, all because of the picture. It turned out that the man assisted by the Man in Black was possessed by a star-spotted sheep, thus completely changing him. He is as accomplished as a new person, and he has built an underground kingdom covering politics, finance, public opinion, etc., at the cost of having a tumor in his brain. Until not long ago, the Star Spotted Sheep suddenly left, and he also died soon. The Man in Black demanded that I must find the sheep in the photo that had left without saying goodbye. I was pressured to start looking, so I came to Sapporo based on the vague postmark on the photo. With the intuition of his girlfriend, he stayed at the Dolphin Hotel. Inside, I stumbled upon Dr. Sheep, the first to be possessed by sheep, and with his guidance I came to the town of Twelve Falls, where the prairie is located. After coming to that pasture, I found that there was also a villa that belonged to rats, and there were no rats and sheep found here, but there was plenty of food and clean rooms. The girlfriend did not quit, and I met the sheep man, a man who escaped the war and hid here like a sheep. I found through the mirror that the sheep man was possessed by the rat and appeared, and finally I forced the rat to appear, only to learn that the rat chose to commit suicide in order not to be controlled by the star-spotted sheep, and the soul was possessed by the sheep man. I was attracted to come here to end it all. Finally, following the rat's instructions, I laid out the bomb and on the way out I ran into the ambitious man in black. The Man in Black thanked me and walked into the villa, where everything finally disappeared into the fire of the explosion.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > loneliness and sorrow, and the release of freedom</h1>
When I was a student, I once read several books by Haruki Murakami in a row, and I suddenly felt very depressed. I was immediately shocked to realize that I had been struck by an indescribable loneliness. I first saw the power of loneliness, and I felt the same way when I read novels by other Japanese writers. This is a unique feature of Japanese novels, and there are special social elements in it. The helplessness and despair of great economic achievements have always been hidden in the consciousness of the Japanese people, and they have also been looming in literary works, accompanied by loneliness and sadness. Reading Haruki Murakami's works again after many years has been beaten by society enough, but it is understandable. There are two scenes in this novel that impressed me.
An isolated place with a vast meadow and a solitary villa. Quiet enough to hear one's own fantasies, such a place can be chewed lonely. Inside the villa, there are complete living tools and food, perfect and free living conditions. If you look at it as a short life, it is undoubtedly very attractive, especially tired of city life.
Haruki Murakami also constructed the history of a town, for those who escaped debt came to a desolate place, opened up wild land to build houses, and gradually developed into small villages and towns. With the prosperity of the times, it was also once bustling, and finally abandoned by the times, the population plummeted, and gradually became dilapidated. The opened farmland was once again planted with trees.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > wine and love</h1>
A large number of wine names appear in the novel, and cocktails are mainly made of whiskey, brandy, etc., and the text naturally reveals a faint smell of wine. There are also many Western dishes and jazz music. These are all styles unique to Haruki Murakami's novels. In the novel, there is a bar opened by the protagonist and his friend Rat' Chinese friend Jie, which runs through the whole text, and finally the commission received by the protagonist is also paid off by the bar.
There is no tyrannical love, only a journey to warm each other in a lonely world. At the beginning of the novel, the protagonist and his ex-wife are calmly separated, and the girlfriend who is later made is also because she has a pair of attractive ears. Breaking up without love, attracting each other, unusually simple. Maybe there are misses, but they are all unspoken in the past, but reading such love still has a faint sadness, probably there is still reluctance hidden between the lines.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > reflection on war</h1>
Haruki Murakami never shied away from reflecting on war, and in "The Adventure of finding sheep", there are Class A war criminals and the United States making intelligence transactions to escape historical sanctions, the star-spotted sheep came from invaded Manchuria, and finally the sheep representing the evil rule were taken away by the good rats in a suicidal way. The most distinctive feature inside is the sheep man, who fled to the hidden grassland to avoid military service. The life of the learning sheep was eventually assimilated into a half-sheep, like a sheep that has always had a human face and can walk upright. Living peacefully with bees, fruit from trees, birds, small fish, crabs, etc. Haruki Murakami's reflections on the war never stop, which is also the dazzling shining point of his novels.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > reading suggestions</h1>
Overall, the novel "Sheep Quest Adventure" is full of strange imagination and a twisted story. There is a feeling of suspense novel and detective novel. But it must be said that it is not very good to read, because there is a lot of stream of consciousness in it. This kind of thing as stream of consciousness, maybe the writer himself does not know what is written, is a feeling. Each person in this part has their own understanding, and if they can understand it, they can understand it, and if they can't understand it, skipping it does not affect the overall reading. If you want to read it, it takes a certain amount of patience. According to an interview with Haruki Murakami, he did not have any outline for writing this novel, that is, he wrote whatever he thought. As for why sheep were chosen, I once found that sheep were scarce in Japan and became interested in writing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a sentence in the book</h1>
I slipped my hands into my pockets and stood in front of the window staring at the view. Everything expands irrelevant to me, everything lives and dies without me - nothing to do with anyone. The snow fell and melted again.