Haruki Murakami mentioned in the article "The Return of Murakami Asahido": "I was born in Kansai and grew up in Kansai. My father Chiaki Murakami was the son of a monk in Kyoto, and my mother Miyuki Murakami was the daughter of a merchant in Semba. It is 100% Kansai. Naturally, I speak Kansai dialect every day. The education he has received is quite localistic, and he believes that dialects outside Kansai are heretics, and there is no authentic person who uses the'standard language'. "Z1z
In literature, Haruki Murakami's attainments are undoubtedly impressive. His literary works are sought after by many people in the world, and his thoughts and attitude towards history and culture are even more respectable. In the above article, Haruki Murakami once described the environment in which he lived as "no language other than his hometown is heresy", which is highly localistic.
In fact, in Japanese culture, such "heretical colors" are not uncommon, but Haruki Murakami is a special one, because he does not agree with such a culture, just as he did "crime of invasion of China" to his father. "The disgust. As we all know, Haruki Murakami has the concept of not eating Chinese food and having no children. The source of these two concepts is his father. What kind of story does this have?
1. Romantic Haruki Murakami, a special writer
In the literary world, Haruki Murakami is a very special writer. Although his writing is not gorgeous, it gives people countless fantasy.
Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in an ordinary family in Fushimi District, Kyoto City, Japan.
But because his father likes to read, Haruki Murakami has been very fond of reading since he was a child, he described it like this: "My family is a very ordinary family, but my father likes books, allowing me to buy myself on credit at a nearby bookstore. Favorite books. Of course, comics, weekly magazines and the like are not good. They are limited to serious books. But anyway, it is really nice to be able to buy a book that I like. This has made me a teenager like that."
The reading habit has laid a good cultural foundation for Haruki Murakami, and his university is also his chosen literature major. In 1968, Haruki Murakami enrolled in the drama major of the First Faculty of Letters of Waseda University and majored in 1975.
In 1979, Haruki Murakami wrote the first novel of his life-"Listen to the Wind", a short story from a table in the stadium, and this novel made him the 23rd group portrait newcomer. Literary Award. So far, Haruki Murakami's literary path has officially begun.
He is very good at using words to to express people's ubiquitous but unspeakable emotions of . The somewhat negative emotions of are sublimated into an elegant and relaxed style in his pen, which makes readers right. The new life is full of reverie and experience. Z4z
is undoubtedly popular with people, so when Haruki Murakami’s fifth novel "Norway Forest" was released in 1987, it sold more than 10 million copies in Japan. It has caused the "Murakami phenomenon" worldwide.
A Japanese scholar described the "Murakami Phenomenon" he knew-"Every time Murakami's new works, new novels-are published, it still becomes a hot topic and phenomenon... every time his book is even translated and published. At that time, everyone would still be happily waiting for new books. Moreover, his new book must be a best-seller."
The writing style is always fresh, natural and romantic, Haruki Murakami is known as the first pure "post-World War II writer", too "Japan's literary standard bearer in the 1980s" is the most popular candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year.
Lin Shaohua, who translates Murakami Haruki's works all the year round, commented on his writing: "Murakami's creative advantage is by no means in the plot, but in the stylistic expression. The most unique thing about Murakami is that it conveys a unique style and proposes another literary style. A possibility. But Murakami also has his limitations. Murakami emphasizes too much personality and lacks a macro narrative. In other words, the consideration of politics and the system is not his strong point. "Z1z
, but who can think of it, it is political" Haruki Murakami, who doesn’t care, is tortured by history and politics. And this torture originated fromHis father.
2. The shadow left by his father
Haruki Murakami's father is Chiaki Murakami, born in Kyoto, Japan in 1917. In 1938, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Murakami Chiaki was drafted and entered the 16th Company of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army as a heavy soldier.
During the life of Murakami Chiaki, he was drafted three times. As a young man of the right age during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he participated in many large and small wars of aggression against China.
When Haruki Murakami was still in elementary school, his father once told this son about his experience of killing Chinese prisoners of war. Later, Haruki Murakami said: "I was in the lower grades of elementary school. My father just spoke indifferently. The execution situation. Even if the Chinese soldier knew that he was about to be killed, he was not afraid of trouble. He just kept his eyes closed and sat there quietly. Then he was executed. His father said that he couldn’t help but admire it. I’m afraid that he would have been until his death. I have deep respect for the beheaded Chinese soldier."
This terrible memory brought serious self-doubt and shame to the underage Haruki Murakami, for having such an economic Father was ashamed. Therefore, from the day Murakami knew that his father was the invader, he did not know how to face his father, and he no longer got close to the father he liked before. The relationship between father and son gradually became alienated, even I haven't met at all for more than 20 years.
It wasn't until shortly before the death of his father in 2008 that Haruki Murakami let go of his grudge against his father.
Despite this, this perennial grudge and self-doubt has left Haruki Murakami with a lot of sequelae.
For one, he doesn't eat any Chinese food, even though he is on a train passing through China, he only relies on the canned food he carries to fill his stomach.
Second, Haruki Murakami's experience has always been condemned and tortured in his heart. In order to prevent his children from suffering such torment, he decided not to have offspring, and also to prevent the blood of the aggressor from being passed on to the next generation. .
This is the pain that his father and Japanese history brought to Haruki Murakami. In addition to accepting this pain, he also decided to let more people face history squarely.
3. Dare to face history squarely and spread correct historical concepts
In recent years, Haruki Murakami has apologized for the mistakes committed by his country in order to allow more people to face the past history. Haruki Murakami has appeared in many public occasions. Times stood up and called for "Japan should sincerely apologize for past wars of aggression." In an interview with Kyodo News in 2015, Haruki Murakami said: "It is not shameful to apologize. It is a fact that (Japan) has invaded other countries." The issue of historical understanding is very important. I think it is very important to make an apology seriously. "Z1z In addition to public appeals, Haruki Murakami also expressed his attitude in the works. In February 2017, Haruki Murakami's novel "Assassination of the Knight Commander", a character in the book said a copy His father recalled such a war experience. In 2018, Haruki Murakami once again criticized the Japanese government in public: "Whether it is the defeat in 1945 or the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, no one has ever truly taken responsibility. "Z1z In 2019, the 70-year-old Haruki Murakami published the first article in Japan to enter the New Year's order and the era-"Abandon the cat, when I talked about my father, I will tell the past", announcing that his father was an "invader". "Chinese Japanese Army" and urged Chinese people to face history squarely and not forget the past. The various actions of Haruki Murakami show that Haruki Murakami did not recognize Japan’s previous acts of aggression against China. History has passed away, but the history of dissemination cannot be faked. Z4z is just like Haruki Murakami. Said: "The spread of true history is the way of survival of our generation. We must fight against those forces that try to spread only what is good for our country as history to the younger generation. "Z1z Summary It is very important for a country to face history squarely, because it affects the future culture of a country, is just likeHaruki Murakami once said: "The problem of understanding history is very important. Japanese youth do not learn history, so they should mention history in their novels so that everyone can understand history. Only in this way can East Asian cultural circles have a common foundation. Only East Asian countries can form a partnership." Haruki Murakami's courage to stand up and call on the people of the country to face up to history and shoulder responsibilities is deeply admired. It is precisely because of this that
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