夜之蜘蛛猴

by Haruki Murakami, 村上春樹, 安西水丸 (Illustrator)

半夜二時，我正在書桌寫東西時，蜘蛛猴像要把窗戶撬開似地進來了。

「唉呀，你是誰？」我問。
「唉呀，你是誰？」蜘蛛猴說。
「你不可以模仿人家。」我說。
「你不可以模仿人家。」蜘蛛猴說。
「你不可以模仿人家啊。」我也模仿著說。
「你不可以模仿人家啊。」蜘蛛猴也以片假名模仿著說。

搞得真麻煩了，我想。被模仿狂夜之蜘蛛猴逮到的話可就沒完沒了。我必須想辦法把這傢伙趕出去才行。我還有工作無論如何都必須在明天早上之前完成呢。這種事不能永遠繼續下去。

「黑寶黑黑漆漆麻烏漫畫托提木呀、苦力呢卡馬斯托氣密哈克魯、帕克帕克。」我快速地說。

「黑寶黑黑漆漆麻烏漫畫托提木呀、苦力呢卡馬斯托氣密哈克魯、帕克帕克。」蜘蛛猴說。

話雖這麼說，因為我也是信口胡謅的，因此無法判斷蜘蛛猴是否正確模仿了。純粹是無意義的行為。　

Genres: Fiction, Japanese Literature, Asian Literature

189 pages, Paperback

Published May 21, 1996

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

[Mizuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really should re-read this short stories collection someday.

[Monica Liu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny stories.

[Kristina Cornèr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Невероятно смешные и сюрреалистичные зарисовки, которые можно читать бесконечно. С прекрасным дополнением в виде иллюстраций, которые связаны с сюжетами рассказов только по касательной и представляют собой отдельные ребусы.

[Elaine L. · Rating 5 out of 5]

"夜之蜘蛛猴"是村上春樹作品裡最具實驗性也最狂野的極短篇。讀過不知道有幾次了，即使過了二十多年的重讀，現在還是覺得裡面的無厘頭故事相當有趣。現在讀來還或多或少可以感覺到些微創作的紋脈。以前喜歡的幾篇現在還是喜歡，比較無味的好像也差不多就維持著無味的狀態。我認真覺得，村上寫短篇故事比長篇小說要好得多。雖然短時間讀太多會有點膩，但如果是隔幾年讀一次的頻率，倒是每次都讓我讀得津津有味。這本列入村上的書裡我最喜歡的前三名。

[Sorin Hadârcă · Rating 4 out of 5]

De-li-ci-os.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Если Японию описывать через состояние, то ультра короткие рассказы Мураками это именно оно.

[H. · Rating 4 out of 5]

比起一汪少年情愁或是為了小確幸而喋喋不休的村上，我更喜歡這樣的村上，肆意地隨筆，妄念之間會心一笑。