Перед вами сборник рассказов самого знаменитого мастера современной японской литературы, в который вошли очень разные по сюжету и настроению, но одинаково впечатляющие, удивительные и яркие истории - от светлого и грустного "Светлячка", послужившего автору основой для его знаменитого романа "Норвежский лес", до сверхэмоционального и интригующего рассказа "Танцующая фея", герой которого трудится на заводе по изготовлению живых слонов. Заядлый поджигатель сараев, слепая ива и спящая девушка, Зимний Музей, висячий сад герра W и крепость Германа Геринга - загадочный мир Харуки Мураками раскрывается читателю во всей своей полноте.
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards. Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner. His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.
Tôi vẫn luôn thắc mắc là nếu Haruki Murakami, sau ngần ấy lần được đề cử, mà được nhận giải Nobel thì họ sẽ chọn tác phẩm nào của ông để trao giải. Với ông tiểu thuyết, truyện ngắn hay hồi ký thứ gì cũng đáng để ta nghiền ngẫm. Lần đầu đọc tác phẩm này khi đó còn là một cậu sinh viên ngô nghê, để rồi từ đó nó mở đầu dẫn ta vào cả một thế giới mênh mang, sâu lắng, huyển ảo giàu trí tưởng tượng của Murakumi. Ta có thể bắt gặp từng truyện trong Đom Đóm xuất hiện lại trong các tiểu thuyết của ông, nhưng khi để riêng nó vẫn là thứ gì đó rất riêng. Đọc Đom Đóm ta mới thấy mỗi tác phẩm của Haruki nó không chỉ lôi cuốn, chứa đựng nhiều thông tin, nhiều kiến thức mà nó còn có nhiều giá trị về văn học. Mỗi truyện trong tập truyện đều khiến ta có những ám ảnh riêng, đôi khi nức nở mà cuộc sống xô bồ đang bào mòn làm ta quên dần đi.
When I was going through this story, I felt like I've read it before somewhere (and realised it was from one of his other books). So, I couldn't contemplate if it was adapted from the Norwegian Wood, or was the novel re-adjusted for his short story collection? Anyways, the ending to the short story differs from the novel. I've always loved Norwegian Wood so this bit of a short story was a reminiscing and pleasant read for me.
Tập truyện ngắn này mình thấy ko phê bằng Những Người Đàn Ông Không Có Đàn Bà, thậm chí mình thấy cái mùi Murakami nó không được rõ nét. Có thể do người dịch hoặc do lúc ấy bác chưa định hình được phong cách hoặc do phần lớn những câu chuyện mình đọc trong tiếng giảng bài nhẹ nhàng, du dương chất giọng ở 1 cái lớp nâng cao chuyên môn nghiệp vụ về kỹ năng soạn thảo văn bản bố láo, kỹ nay chém gió theo nhóm, kỹ năng giấu giếm hồ sơ, kỹ năng vỗ vai các bạn gái bạn giai trốn thuế gian lận. 😌
Chẳng biết bao giờ mới lại được nghe tiếng nói ấy nhiều và liên tục đến thế.
Huế - tháng 10/2019 Lần cuối đi bên em xót xa người ơi 😌
Пока прочитала именно рассказ "сжечь сарай". Мураками описывает девушку как заброшенный сарай, при этом оставляет ей некоторую привлекательность — звучит как задача!) двое мужчин, два пути решения проблем этого сарая. Это я так триггерюсь или опять безвольная героиня, которую то ли убили, то ли просто наблюдали и отпустили? Волнующая сцена, когда герой просыпается после вечера с пивом и косяками, которая пугает тем, что как будто это его сейчас подожгли (создано благодаря воспоминаниям и сну). Плюс выстраивается напряженное недоверие к одному из героев, который не жарко, не холодно, и не пьяно.
I only read the Barn Burning. Though it was an open ended story, I liked the plot and the little suspense and thrill of the behavior of the characters.
Firefly and Barn Burning were pretty great, simple stories about love without answers (and sometimes questions). Firefly describes relationships without relationships (this story was a beginning for Norwegian Wood) and everything except the ending was well written. Barn Burning is the thriller without thriller. I still don't understand what I feel after reading it, but it's definitely the best Murakami's short story. Other stories are poor, too philosophical or just a waste of time.
The first short story, Firefly, later develops into Norwegian Wood. Another short story, Mekura Yanagi to Nemuru Onna, somehow included the part where the antagonist of Norwegian Wood and his friend visited Naoko in hospital during high school's summer break. The most interesting short story is titled The Dancing Dwarf, whereby the main character working in an elephant making factory dreamed about a dancing dwarf. He later allowed the dwarf to enter his body in order to use dancing to win a girl's heart. Creepy ending. The concept of little people has recurred in Murakami's other stories. How can one write both long novel and short stories so well. All hail Murakami.
"You're a writer, so I thought you must be interested in patterns of human behavior. Writers are supposed to appreciate something for what it is, before they hand down a judgment or whatever. If appreciate isn't the right word, maybe you can say they can accept things for what they are."