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空港にて

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クリスマスイブの夜、新宿を1人で歩きながら「いつかモロッコへ行こう」と言った男性のことを考える27歳の女性。コンビニでサンディエゴの映画技術学校へ行くことを思案する22歳の青年。アフガニスタンの地雷被害者に義足を作りたいと思う、33歳の風俗嬢…。8人の登場人物がそれぞれ抱く個人的な希望を、細かな情景描写とともに書き込んだ短編集。

193 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

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Ryū Murakami

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Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.

Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.

Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his blessing to adapt Coin Locker Babies. The screen play was worked on by director Jordan Galland. However, Miike could not raise funding for the project. An adaptation directed by Michele Civetta is currently in production.

Murakami has played drums for a rock group called Coelacanth and hosted a TV talk show.

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113 reviews5 followers
July 1, 2011
3次元の極細密画のように展開されていく空間の中で、主人公の意識が自然に流れ込む。彼らのナレーションの流れに私の意識が吸い込まれる。 主人公たちは各空間にいるが、そこにいない。時間と空間の移動を繰り返える彼らの意識には異時間と異空間の区別さえなくなる。「未知の世界へ」向かう方向性だけが存在するのだ。
大雨の月曜日、静かな図書館で、私は彼らと一緒に動かぬ旅に出た。私の意識は旅先からなかなか戻ってこなかった。
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September 3, 2016
Interesting vignettes of Japanese life condensed into short stories. The better ones are full of those countless Japanese idiosyncrasies and conjure up images so vivid you are instantly transported into a convenience store or an izakaya. Unfortunately, each successive story seems to be less about the place it is trying to snapshot and more about the backstory of the characters, which are mostly disappointing young women dependent on older, wealthier men. In the afterword, Murakami claims that 'hope' was a unifying theme, but in most of the stories it seems to come in the same uninspired form.
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March 8, 2025
日本語を勉強している外国人として、日本語で本を読もうとしています。村上龍の様々な本を読んだことがあるのですが、今まで読んだ本はチェコ語で読みました。今は日本に住んでいるので、日本語の本も手に入り、やっと日本語で本を読むチャンスがありました。この本の日本語は読みやすいので、日本語で本を読み始めたい方にもお勧めしています。この本では色々な場所が舞台になり、大抵何かで悩んでいる主人公の話になります。悩みはただの悩みでなく、深くて、暗い悩みです。この作品を読み、落ち込む場合もあります…

特に気に入ったショートストーリーは『クリスマス』、『カラオケルームにて』と『公園いて』です。しかし、全てのショートストーリーの雰囲気が好きです!
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138 reviews6 followers
November 24, 2014
Первая книга на японском.
日本の社会。怖い。
希望。
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