英语听力：寻羊冒险记—寻找村上春树 1
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I’m on the trail of Haruki Murakami, the elusive1 Haruki Murakami. He’s Japan’s most successful novelist. He writes off-beat books where dream, memory and reality often swap2 places with one another. His stories are fueled by his great passion—music, especially jazz. And his fame has spread far beyond Japan. He’s been translated into over 40 different languages. Murakami’s most recent book After Dark happens down there.
Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going, people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold back time and people trying to urge it forward. The date is just about to change. I think about the old days a lot. Memory is so crazy. You know what I think, she says, that people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
Haruki Murakami grew up in the 1950s in a country fueled by the very darkest memories, memories of a
shameful3 war, of
devastation4,
humiliation5 and defeat. The
cult6 hero of Japanese literature when Murakami was growing up was Yukio Mishima, a nationalist, a militarist, a writer
obsessed7 with Japan’s past and traditions, who ended up committing hara-kiri, in the ultimate act of devotion to his samurai ideals. Murakami despised everything Mishima stood for. He wrote, all I could think about when I began writing fiction in my youth was how to run as far as I could from the Japanese condition. I wanted to distance myself as much as possible from the curse of Japanese.
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