No matter how trivial the action, as long as you insist on it day by day, something similar to objective cognition will always arise from it. - Spring trees in the spring
In April of that year, when spring was in full bloom, she looked at Haruki Murakami, who was cutting vegetables in the bar kitchen, and her beloved wife called her out for a walk. Murakami decided to go to the stadium to watch a baseball game, and on the field, the batsman's beautiful skills made him very excited. The greatest value of a baseball player is to hit the ball. Murakami, who majored in theater, instantly felt that his value should be to write novels and plays. So, suddenly, the urge to write something came out. That same night, at the bar table, Murakami wrote the literary work "And Listen to the Wind".
This novel won the Japanese Group Portrait Newcomer Award, and also made haruki Murakami, who was unknown at that time, bloom his head and lay the foundation for future creation.
"Listen to the Wind" is set against the background of Japan's post-war social reality, and through the details of the story of the exchanges between young people, it shows the confusion, loneliness and blind obedience of the public at that time!
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This book, whether in terms of language style, rhetorical techniques, and writing intentions, can be described as innovative. The content is flat and straightforward, and there is no flowery rhetoric, through the simple description of some small things, the reader can deeply appreciate the meaning of the ideas that the author wants to express.
The language style is short and simple, the dialect colloquialisms are popular, and the characters are portrayed clearly. The text is humorous and vivid, and the ridicule is funny, which can make people taste some sourness and misery in the sense of ridicule. The author is good at using ironic techniques, such as: the protagonist uses a cunning monkey to compare it to a dying uncle, satirizing how thin and cool people are, which makes people sad.
The text plot is illusory and real, it seems that one thing has nothing to do with another thing, which is absurd and bizarre, but it is actually appropriate! For example, comparing one's empty body to something thrown away by a malfunctioning airplane to alleviate repetition, comparing the world to a sparrow brain marrow, etc., showing the cruelty of real life after the war and the bleak tragedy of the common people to the fullest, reading and reading oneself is brought into that fragmented and chaotic world.
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The rhetorical method of exaggeration is also the characteristic of Haruki Murakami's style, such as: drinking beer can fill a swimming pool, and the leftover peanut peel can be exaggerated enough to cover the floor of the entire bar, and the decadent and extravagant life of young people at that time, the whiplash body is invisibly warned the world.
Throughout the work, the combination of virtual and real, Haruki Murakami intersperses many Western movies, music, and historical content in it, telling the stories of several young people in a leap-like way, through the impact of historical events on the people, to awaken people's self-redemption.
Clean in place, not dragging mud and water, is also a simple brushwork in the village. Although it does not win with the plot, there are endless mysteries, delicate descriptions, allegories that can be seen everywhere, and life is rubbed into art, philosophy, and insight into facts.
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Haruki Murakami said: "It is extremely difficult to speak out, and even the more blunt you speak, the more you will escape into the depths of darkness." Because it is difficult to grasp the measure of understanding and communication between people, the wisest thing to do is to maintain a sense of distance from each other, not to get too close, and not to impose on others at any time. This is the alienation beauty that Murakami admires. Yes, distance is warmth, is care, is comfort!
The story in the book lasts only eighteen days, but it can also tell the philosophy. Those authors have vague memories that represent his past. Like the death of three "girlfriends" he had ever been friends with, or even the last one. Undoubtedly, they all pass away with the wind, leaving enough space for the future!
Everyone's life and story are not repeated, will they be spied on by the wind in a corner? And then tell it to those who are willing to listen to the story?
Whether you read a book or brush your mobile phone, pick it up if you like it, and put it down when you are lazy, this is the inner strength, as if there is a kind of comfort and ease that is not afraid, I feel as if it resonates with Haruki Murakami. Free, comfortable, casual, alienated, this is his and mine!
Casual words are often written from the heart, and nature is the most permanent and stable thing!