象厂喜剧

by Haruki Murakami, 林少华 (Translator), 安西水丸 (Illustrator)

春が来るとジョン・アプダイクを思い出す。ジョン・アプダイクを読むと1968年の春を思い出す。ほんのちょっとしたことなのだけど、我々の人生や世界観はそのような「ほんのちょっとしたこと」で支えられているんじゃないか、という気がする…。都会的なセンチメンタリズムに充ちた13の短編と、カラフルなイラストが奏でる素敵なハーモニー。語り下ろし対談も収録した新編集版。

137 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

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

[Daniel Burton-Rose · Rating 2 out of 5]

"The Happy Ending of the Elephant Factory"

In the conversation appended to the back of this book between Murakai and illustrator Anasai Mizumaru each reveals that he was insufficiently self-confident to publish these works independently. My judgement upon reading is that their initial evaluation was correct: inconsequential, whimsical essays plus inconsequential, whimsical pictures don't make for a substantive work!

[Phoebe]

找不到中譯本,SO.....

[Slow Man · Rating 2 out of 5]

文字和插圖的感覺不怎麼樣。