意味がなければスイングはない

by Haruki Murakami

シューベルトからスタン・ゲッツ、ブルース・スプリングスティーン、スガシカオまで、音楽と作家のファンキーだけど奥の深い十篇。

Genres: Fiction, Japanese Literature

Paperback Bunko

First published January 1, 2005

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

[Cherry Yip · Rating 4 out of 5]

讀這本書的過程很有趣，我在圖書館裡插著耳機，每看到村上春樹介紹一首歌或一張專輯，我就立刻在串流軟體上搜尋、加入播放清單並隨即播放。我本身對爵士樂幾乎是零認識，即使多次嘗試聽但還是沒什麼感覺，可惜讀完整本書還是這樣子。我很喜歡搖滾樂，所以讀The Beach Boys主唱和Bruce Springsteen的章節好開心。後記裡村上春樹說文學和音樂是他最愛的兩件事情，所以大學畢業後他當全職小說家以及開爵士咖啡廳，多麼讓人羨煞又黯然，世間最令人嚮往的生活不過如此。

[Yinxue · Rating 2 out of 5]

真的好像和林少华八字不合 好讨厌好讨厌这个翻译的调调 简直咬牙忍下去 之前读村上其他书的英文版完全不是这种感觉