世界の終りとハードボイルド ワンダーランド 上巻

世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド #1

by Haruki Murakami, 村上春樹

高い壁に囲まれ、外界との接触がまるでない街で、そこに住む一角獣たちの頭骨から夢を読んで暮らす〈僕〉の物語、〔世界の終り〕。老科学者により意識の核に或る思考回路を組み込まれた〈私〉が、その回路に隠された秘密を巡って活躍する〔ハードボイルド・ワンダーランド〕。静寂な幻想世界と波瀾万丈の冒険活劇の二つの物語が同時進行して織りなす、村上春樹の不思議の国

Genres: Japanese Literature

471 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 1985

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Aya Miyazaki · Rating 3 out of 5]

世の中なんでこんなにも村上春樹好きが多いのか。それを理解したくて、いろいろ村上作品に挑戦してはいるものの、今回もやはり全く好きになれない。
内容が全く頭に入ってこない。
ふぅー。

[Seongyeon · Rating 5 out of 5]

“I believe you. I told you earlier, didn’t I? If you believe, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Memories of happiness, recollections of loving someone, moments of tears, childhood days, plans for the future, favorite music—whatever it is, it’s okay. As long as you keep thinking about those things, there’s nothing to fear.”

[Remi · Rating 4 out of 5]

女性キャラクターの書かれ方は気に入らないが、物語自体が面白いので読みすすめる

[Bel]

日本語が下手ので、遅く読んでいる。。。

[Sung-Gi Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

眠っているように見えた獣たちの何頭かは、同じ姿勢のまま凍りついて死んでいたのだ。そんな獣たちは死んだというよりはまるで何か重要な命題について深く考えこんでいるように見えた。しかし彼らにとっての答は存在しなかった。

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