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"The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland" Author: [Japan] Haruki Murakami Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
"The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland" Author: [Japan] Haruki Murakami Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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This book is one of Haruki Murakami's most important novels. It is known as one of Haruki Murakami's three masterpieces together with Norwegian Wood and Dance Dance Dance. The novel has 40 chapters, 20 of which are "Cold Wonderland" and 20 are "The End of the World". This method of developing the plot in parallel is a feature of Haruki Murakami's novels, and this book is the most typical embodiment of this feature. "Cold Wonderland" tells the story of two major underworld organizations fighting for a device that controls the human brain invented by an old scientist. The old man hid underground. The protagonist "I" is the old man's experimental subject. He was threatened by the underworld. With the help of the old man's granddaughter, he went through a thrilling underground journey and finally found the old man. However, he was told that due to the old man's miscalculation, he would leave the world in 24 hours and go to another world, "The End of the World". "I" returned to the ground, said goodbye to his girlfriend for the last night, and then drove to the beach to wait for death. "The End of the World" is a different scene. It is isolated from the world and the residents live in peace, but people have no heart, no feelings, and no goals. "I" have always wanted to escape from here, but when I was about to succeed, I chose to stay because I found that the "end of the world" was actually created by "I". This book has a unique imagination and a high artistic level. The plot is extremely absurd and the theme is extremely serious. It uses a deformed approach to write about people's true mentality of having no way to escape from the chaotic current situation of contemporary capitalist society.
"The End of the World": The mountains and forests are desolate, and the town is cold and lonely. The unicorn dies and is reborn, releasing endless ancient dreams; the residents are indifferent and repeat the indifferent days. The outsider "I" is determined to escape from this isolated and dull world, but chooses to stay at the moment of success. Because "I" found that everything here, including people and things, was created by "I". Magical transformation, extraordinary imagination, absurd plot, serious theme. Haruki Murakami's most artistic novel, one of the three masterpieces with "Norwegian Wood" and "Dance! Dance! Dance".
About the Author · · · · · ·
Haruki Murakami (1949-), a famous Japanese writer. Born in Kyoto Prefecture, he graduated from the Faculty of Literature at Waseda University. In 1979, he won the Gunzo Newcomer Literature Award for his debut novel, Hear the Wind Sing. His major works include Norwegian Wood, Hard-boiled Wonderland, Dance! Dance! Dance!, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore. His works have been translated into more than 30 countries and regions, and have a profound influence around the world.
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