銀河鐵道之夜─宮澤賢治全集

by Kenji Miyazawa, 宮澤賢治

212 pages

About the author

His name is written as 宮沢賢治 in Japanese, and translated as 宮澤賢治 in Traditional Chinese.

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) was born in Iwate, one of the northernmost prefectures in Japan. In high school, he studied Zen Buddhism and developed a lifelong devotion to the Lotus Sutra, a major influence on his writing. After graduating from an agricultural college, he moved to Tokyo to begin his writing career but had to return home to care for a sick sister. He remained in his home in Iwate for the rest of his life. One of his best-known works is the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad, which was adapted into anime in the late twentieth century, as were many of his short stories. Much of his poetry is still popular in Japan today.

Reviews

[Hermeowne Blue · Rating 4 out of 5]

我哭了，我寫了好長的review被goodreads給弄丟了，我崩潰，我以頭搶地。

“不，我的生命沒什麼大不了。只要能變得像您那樣美麗、了不起，我情願死一萬回。”——我，24/7

4.5 - 在一個需要幹正事兒的日子看完，14歲的我一定會喜歡的、寧靜溫柔浪漫的書。還是那句話叭，I died at 14，14歲以後做的一切事情，都是對14歲以前的追悼回溯。真的很需要靜下心來，體會深深淺淺起伏的麥浪，貪吃飯糰的鹿，吱吱喳喳的小狐狸，燃燒自己點燃星空的夜鷹，全都是人與自然的交融。還有銀河鐵道之夜，失去Campanella的Giovanni有那麼多的孤獨和掙扎，都講給無垠的星空聽。我也想要在南十字星站之後下車，像融在白沙裡的鷺一樣消失在人世間。

書中用動物隱喻／諷刺人類社會的rhetoric太令人喜歡了，狡黠詼諧，雖然不乏黑暗之處，但大多還是像小孩子的淘氣一樣，以溫溫軟軟的口吻娓娓道來。

想到宮澤的生平，又想起那句話來：“許多人都受人感召，但很少有人被神選中”。宮澤和梵高一樣都是死去之後才為人所知，也太難過了。留名青史縱然好，但比起這個，我寧願他們在生前能稍微幸福一點。