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村上ラヂオ #3
村上收音機3：喜歡吃沙拉的獅子
Collection of essays spun from the secret drawers of the Haruki Murakami's mind, about small episodes, detailed knowledge, and an individual view of the world. Thoughtful musings on life experiences. Illustrated by Ohashi Ayumi. In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
220 pages, Hardcover
First published July 9, 2012
About the author
Haruki Murakami
629 books136k followersHaruki 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.
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.
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September 22, 2015
Mr. Murakami chats with us about a lot of topics in this collection of his magazine columns, and he is a guy with an interesting viewpoint to see things and great sense of humor.
October 16, 2023
Легко читати, дуже втішена, що прочитала. Коротенькі оповіді з симпатичними ілюстраціями - замітки в жіночий журнал - про все на світі.
Гарна книга, щоб вивчати японську, бо тут і про те, як зробити ідеальний омлет, і які знаряддя тортур використовували в сибіру, правильний вибір сумок для подорожей, собак, котів, їжу, тріатлон, страхи, нагороди, музику, цитати, і так далі і тому подібне.
Іноді звісно дивуєшся, як Муракамі сам не розуміє наскільки він муракамістий, і що не всі на світі думають про речі так як він (а він пише так наче його життя - буденне, вибори очевидні, письменство просто ще одна робота і лайфстайл, це напевно і чіпляє).
Гарна книга, щоб вивчати японську, бо тут і про те, як зробити ідеальний омлет, і які знаряддя тортур використовували в сибіру, правильний вибір сумок для подорожей, собак, котів, їжу, тріатлон, страхи, нагороди, музику, цитати, і так далі і тому подібне.
Іноді звісно дивуєшся, як Муракамі сам не розуміє наскільки він муракамістий, і що не всі на світі думають про речі так як він (а він пише так наче його життя - буденне, вибори очевидні, письменство просто ще одна робота і лайфстайл, це напевно і чіпляє).
December 31, 2021
很温暖又有趣的随笔集。虽然每一则都很短，但每看完一则都会有要点赞的冲动～村上说得没错，作为小说家他需要观察人性的至黑至暗，但对于平时的生活而言，作者的确是个幽默风趣的人呐❤️
August 4, 2020
村上春树大叔的这本书，很喜欢。没有主题的随笔，就像暖洋洋的午后漫无边际的闲聊，充满慵懒的气息。
看看各篇的名字：
忘不了，记不住;只见过牛头梗犬;纵然爱已消亡;要做个真正的男子汉;歌剧演员的暹罗猫;等着上断头台;做西式煎蛋卷;到法院去！想吃超级沙拉;献欲手册;无聊得要死的交谈;小费难..
特别是那篇想吃超级沙拉里说，“然而不知何故HWAK将这道魅力无穷的沙拉从菜单上删除了，从此以后我深觉不便。当然，酒店经营和世界的运作目的并不是让我感到幸福，我没有理由大发牢骚。"
一个当代大作家对超级沙拉的渴望真的可以让我笑地停不下来。当世界变得喧嚣，生活节奏越来越快，匆匆遇见又不断告别，好像什么都唾手可得，又好像没有什么是一定要得到，在忙碌中失去了欲望。村上大叔认真写了想吃超级沙拉，还写了做西式煎蛋卷，还有歌剧演员的暹罗猫。一篇篇读下来，突然想吃超级沙拉，突然想做西式煎蛋卷，突然想起工作以外生活中的各种妙趣。
读到那篇美泉宫动物园里的狮子，“总而言之，在那个冰冷的晚秋午后，我和狮子隔着一堵透明的薄墙，久久地相对无言。我试着微微一笑，狮子却没有回以微笑，她始终面无表情。最终也说不准是谁先离开了那堵薄墙（严寒中，也不可能一整天大眼瞪小眼），回去继续干自己的事儿了。” 著名小说家难道不是日理万机吗？还有时间在动物园里和狮子练习微笑对视。。。那是哪一年呢？去Big Island 参加完铁人三项，我背着行囊东游西逛，逛进了夏威夷动物园，坐在凳子上睡着了，不知道过了多久，突然背后响起了狮吼，把我从美梦中惊醒。那是个多么惬意自由的午后，漫步在风里阳光也温柔。突然觉得，好久没去过动物园了。
爱吃沙拉的狮子，初春里的小确幸。
看看各篇的名字：
忘不了，记不住;只见过牛头梗犬;纵然爱已消亡;要做个真正的男子汉;歌剧演员的暹罗猫;等着上断头台;做西式煎蛋卷;到法院去！想吃超级沙拉;献欲手册;无聊得要死的交谈;小费难..
特别是那篇想吃超级沙拉里说，“然而不知何故HWAK将这道魅力无穷的沙拉从菜单上删除了，从此以后我深觉不便。当然，酒店经营和世界的运作目的并不是让我感到幸福，我没有理由大发牢骚。"
一个当代大作家对超级沙拉的渴望真的可以让我笑地停不下来。当世界变得喧嚣，生活节奏越来越快，匆匆遇见又不断告别，好像什么都唾手可得，又好像没有什么是一定要得到，在忙碌中失去了欲望。村上大叔认真写了想吃超级沙拉，还写了做西式煎蛋卷，还有歌剧演员的暹罗猫。一篇篇读下来，突然想吃超级沙拉，突然想做西式煎蛋卷，突然想起工作以外生活中的各种妙趣。
读到那篇美泉宫动物园里的狮子，“总而言之，在那个冰冷的晚秋午后，我和狮子隔着一堵透明的薄墙，久久地相对无言。我试着微微一笑，狮子却没有回以微笑，她始终面无表情。最终也说不准是谁先离开了那堵薄墙（严寒中，也不可能一整天大眼瞪小眼），回去继续干自己的事儿了。” 著名小说家难道不是日理万机吗？还有时间在动物园里和狮子练习微笑对视。。。那是哪一年呢？去Big Island 参加完铁人三项，我背着行囊东游西逛，逛进了夏威夷动物园，坐在凳子上睡着了，不知道过了多久，突然背后响起了狮吼，把我从美梦中惊醒。那是个多么惬意自由的午后，漫步在风里阳光也温柔。突然觉得，好久没去过动物园了。
爱吃沙拉的狮子，初春里的小确幸。
May 19, 2020
热爱长跑，爱好爵士，胡思乱想，又勤于自省的村上的easy read。
July 3, 2022
在图书馆发现的村上的新书《爱吃沙拉的狮子》（南海出版，2015年6月），是村上为年轻女孩杂志所写的专栏文章合集（咦？），文风清新有趣，连生活中一些琐碎小事在村上的笔下都变得有意思起来。很适合在微醺的春日阳光里读的一本书呢。一口气读了一半。推荐给喜欢村上和想读些轻快文字的人。
May 16, 2024
先生真是位可爱的人啊。
February 6, 2025
不爱说话的人啊，请努力生活。我也在背后无言地声援你。
December 21, 2025
這些文字是村上對生活的體察與感悟，筆調輕鬆風趣，讓我對他的瞭解又深了一分。
November 7, 2016
Murakami's essays consistently reflect the author's attitude toward life. Whatever the topic he relates to, he puts himself in an interesting, yet natural interactive way against the subject, a hilarious awkwardness that many Japanese movies and drama feature. If you enjoy Japanese style of humor, this is one of the best books I recommend.
Another popular Japanese novelist, Higashino Keigo, who happens to write essays, too, also likes using this style of humor, but he comes in a less natural way than Murakami. Good writers always have conversations with you like in person. Secondary ones may sound a little deliberate, persuasive or showing off.
Another popular Japanese novelist, Higashino Keigo, who happens to write essays, too, also likes using this style of humor, but he comes in a less natural way than Murakami. Good writers always have conversations with you like in person. Secondary ones may sound a little deliberate, persuasive or showing off.
February 10, 2017
「一気読みしました。色んな言葉に刺されながら自分を振り返ってしまった。まったく予想外だ。」
August 16, 2012
As well as his other essays, it has relaxing enough to make me think that I should be more laid-back. Murakami's way of thinking make sense for many people regardless of age, but I can't deny that he gets old.
July 24, 2017
Hate his misogyny perception.
Can feel allover his thinking about women. disgusting.
But understand why he is million seller writer.
This is light and somewhat no-idea topics but I know everyone thought once in our life.
Can feel allover his thinking about women. disgusting.
But understand why he is million seller writer.
This is light and somewhat no-idea topics but I know everyone thought once in our life.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 5, 2017
샐러드를 좋아하는 사자. The lion who likes salads. Read it in korean today. Hilarious stories. Light yet sharp. I laughed out loud several times.
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