

Ladataan... Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)– tekijä: Haruki Murakami
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I went back to reread my review of Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to refresh my memory on how I thought about Murakami then versus now. I still think he's a master, but I think my feeling about Hard-Boiled Wonderland are more complicated than my feelings about Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I could really do without a lot of the science fiction stuff in the Hard-Boiled Wonderland segments, but overall this is so stunningly written (especially the End of the World portions) that I feel like I can't give it anything less than a five. ( ![]() Why does the sun go on shining Why does the sea rush to shore Don't they know it's the end of the world 'Cause you don't love me any more Why do the birds go on singing Why do the stars glow above Don't they know it's the end of the world It ended when I lost your love I wake up in the morning and I wonder Why everything's the same as it was I can't understand, no, I can't understand How life goes on the way it does Why does my heart go on beating Why do these eyes of mine cry Don't they know it's the end of the world It ended when you said goodbye Wie so oft bei Murakami brauchte ich eine Weile, um in das Buch hineinzufinden, aber letztlich hat es mich doch wieder gepackt und mitgerissen. Eine traurige, poetische Geschichte mit viel Stoff zum Nachdenken. Ich habe, wenn auch etwas zögernd, das Stichwort „Advaita“ vergeben, auch wenn das sicher kein zentrales Thema des Buches ist, keine klare Intention des Autors. Aber zumindest mir hat sich genau diese zentrale Frage in dem Buch wieder präsentiert: Was ist besser: Ein Leben in beschaulicher Ruhe, Frieden, oder das große Auf und Ab, hin- und hergeworfen, aber voller Eindrücke und Erfahrungen? Murakami beantwortet die Frage nicht, wie überhaupt der Schluss etwas unbefriedigend ist, zu viel offen lässt, eigentlich ein Cliffhanger. Schade. Aber wahrscheinlich hatte er selbst keine Idee, wie das weitergehen sollte. Stellenweise fand ich auch die Sprache wenig begeisternd, zu flapsig, vor allem in der wörtlichen Rede bemüht umgangssprachlich, speziell in Hard-boiled Wonderland. Schwer zu sagen, ob das eher die Sprache des Übersetzers oder des Autors ist, besonders überzeugend fand ich sie jedenfalls nicht. Insgesamt ist das Buch aber doch wieder ein echter Murakami mit all seiner wunderbaren Rätselhaftigkeit. Sehr empfehlenswert! mentre tutti quanti ancora acclamavano come capolavoro "Kafka sulla spiaggia", io mi leggevo "la fine del mondo e il paese delle meraviglie", uscito quasi in sordina poco tempo dopo... Visto che si trattava di un libro dell'85 pensavo che si trattasse di un'opera minore, ma già dalle prime pagine mi sono dovuto ricredere: Murakami riesce sempre a sorprendermi, a prendere la mia testa e tenerla immersa a forza nei mondi che crea. Sara la capacità dell'autore di passare con così tanta naturalezza da una terrorizzante esplorazione dei sotterranei di Tokyo alla disquisizione sul sandwich perfetto. Oppure l'inquietante sensazione di prossimità che riesce a dare la descrizione di una città popolata da unicorni e uomini separati dalle proprie ombre o, ancora, l'atmosfera satura di una tristezza densa, disperata ma allo stesso tempo pacata, tipicamente giapponese. Non so... ma leggere questo libro è stato come visitare le macerie lasciate da una qualche tragedia del passato: infinitamente triste e infinitamente ricco di significati...indimenticabile. PS. a chi apprezza gli anime giapponesi, consiglio di guardare la serie Haibane Renmei che riprende in maniera originale liberamente atmosfere e temi da questo meraviglioso romanzo. reminds me a bit of PKD Gaiman. add 0.5 stars for introspection.
He has become the foremost representatives of a new style of Japanese writing: hip, cynical and highly stylized, set at the juncture of cyberpunk, postmodernism, and hard-boiled detective fiction.... Murakami [is] adept at deadpan wit, outrageous style. Murakami's bold willingness to go straight over the top [is] a signal indication of his genius... a world-class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks. Sisältää nämä:
The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow. No library descriptions found. |
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