Book review of "Norwegian Wood":
"Norwegian Wood" is a deeply representative work by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It mainly tells the story of the protagonist Watanabe Toryo. The love entanglement between two girls is a plain and slightly sentimental novel about love. The Japanese economy has entered a highly developed capitalist society. With the rapid economic development, people's spiritual crisis is increasing day by day.
The abundance of material life and the expansion of human desires have caused a serious imbalance in the spiritual world. Communication between people has decreased and the psychological distance has widened. People living in cities are like rootless duckweeds, lonely, nihilistic, hesitant, lost, and unable to face strong social pressure. The prosperity of the city cannot hide people's inner anxieties, and the sweetness of love cannot alleviate the mental pain.
So, under the theme of love, it also involves a series of problems that trouble youth, such as loneliness, confusion, and redemption. Japanese writer Haruki Murakami recalls an innocent and slightly sentimental love story in a gentle style.
The creation of "Norwegian Wood"
"Norwegian Wood" is a song sung by the Beatles. It tells the story of a lonely and bored young man and a beautiful girl. The girl spent a wonderful night, and then the girl disappeared, leaving only the young man's endless sad stories. The song expresses the inexplicable and inexplicable youthful love, mixed with a sense of emptiness and powerlessness in survival.
Murakami created this novel inspired by this. The protagonist Watanabe loves jazz music, so these music appear and disappear in the book, which not only metaphors the living conditions of people in Japanese society at that time, but also serves as a hidden thread to promote the plot of the story. The preference for different music also hints at the different personalities of each person. destiny. For example, Naoko likes Brahms, who is known for his classical repression.
Sometimes I like the perfection-seeking music master Bill Evans recommended by Watanabe. It is a metaphor for Naoko’s inner conflicts and depression. Midoriko's character is like a Western drifting rock music, while Watanabe, who is between the two, embodies the hesitant character unique to Eastern people. He is destined to need someone to lead him out of his ideological dilemma.