Chapter 6 Murakami's imagination

From the time I saw it, I found the special charm exuded in Murakami's works.I remember that it was September, and I just arranged a trip to the United States, and I worked tirelessly to bring me on the plane to accompany me on the long journey. Every time I read Murakami, I will be sucked into his imaginative words, and when I return to reality, there will always be a moment of astonishment as if I have been in a lifetime.This feeling is the strongest when I read it, and the plots in the book are deeply etched in my mind, and even lasted into my dreams.I remember that in a dream, I saw some elementary school classmates, all of whom looked the same as when they were in elementary school. There was a boy who was very good at drawing. He told me that he would become a "calculator" in the future. I asked him excitedly: "Have you ever watched Haruki Murakami's, the protagonist in it is also a calculator!" He shook his head blankly.Later, a group of us went to a place so dark that we couldn't see our fingers. It felt like a cave with cold water dripping from the top. The cave was filled with a murderous atmosphere, and we could feel that there were many eyes peeping around us. After watching our every move, you may have guessed where it is?That's right!It is the place where the "niggers" appear in the movie.

I often hope that Murakami's work can be made into a movie, it must be pretty good.Just having said that, many ingenious metaphors and delicate sensory and psychological descriptions cannot be filmed anyway.Like how do you create "thick, icy darkness like jelly" and "not half-and-half darkness that the eye gets used to over time, but total darkness. It's like repainting several Layers upon layers of darkness so deep that there are no gaps."And where do you go to find a girl with "a pair of ears shaped like a dream. Probably 100 percent ears"?Of course, there is also the "100% girl" in Haruki Murakami's mind. Although "the girl is not very beautiful, she doesn't wear any fancy clothes, and there are even traces of sleeping and squashing left behind her hair, and her age is probably close to 30." ".But that kind of "100%" feeling, I am afraid that even the best stylist or makeup artist can't create it!

Murakami's imagination is sometimes unconstrained, wild and uncontrollable, but his description of "smell" is very kind, and it can easily evoke the memory of a certain smell deep in your heart. For example, in "The Coastline in May", there is a section of "the asphalt road scorched by the sun is extremely hot, while walking while jumping, sometimes there will be a shower in the afternoon, and the rainwater absorbed by the hot asphalt road will overflow. The smell, I love it." When I was a child living in the country, the asphalt road in front of my house would give off this smell during the summer afternoon showers.My sister and I call it "the smell of rain". Whether we like it or not, it brings me nostalgia!

In addition, there is the "smell of cologne wafting from the base of the neck of the fat girl in the middle. It's like the aroma of standing in a melon field on a summer morning. That aroma makes me have a certain incredible feeling."I can't help but wonder if she's a big user of "OK One" or "Water of Life".Speaking of the chubby girl, the words Murakami uses to describe her body are quite interesting. "Her body is as if a lot of silent snow fell at night, with a lot of flesh." "Her body looks like a child, but also like an adult. It's like a normal person's body covered in jelly." , the white and soft flesh is plumply attached to the arms, thighs, neck, and the belly is really swollen, smooth like a whale." The fat girl is also very confident in her body, and said: "To grow these flesh It’s really not easy. You have to eat a lot of rice, and cakes and cream too.” Murakami’s positive description of obesity should be widely publicized, and it may break the world’s concept of “thin is beautiful”, and With the development of the "beautiful fat method", you no longer have to suffer from cutting your body and losing weight.

The "introspection" that Murakami's characters often do is sometimes particularly moving and thought-provoking. For example, the protagonist Okada Toru and his wife Kumiko have a small dispute over blue tissue paper, patterned toilet paper and green pepper fried beef. Okada Toru finds out that he has been married for 6 years, and he has never known that Kumiko hates those things. Although this seemed like a trivial matter, Okada Toru felt uneasy that it was actually a very serious matter.He couldn't help wondering: Will I be able to know the whole picture one day?Or should I continue to grow old and die without knowing her well until the end?If so, what is the married life I lead like this?And what is my life of living with such an unknown person and sleeping in the same bed?In married life, we often think we know each other well, but is that really the case?Maybe one day you also find that your partner who sleeps with you is like a stranger you have never known. That feeling should be scary!

After reading a passage from Totoro Okada, I couldn't help but remind myself again and again, don't take the love of the other half for granted, but must manage the marriage well and understand each other with heart.When we are all old, looking back on the decades of companionship, maybe we will have no regrets! What attracts me most in Murakami's works is not all the bizarre plots, but sometimes the protagonist does not do any "important things", but just leisurely doing some household chores.As mentioned earlier, Totoro Okada was very happy to be a "househusband" at home during his unemployment period. Cooking, laundry, grocery shopping, swimming, etc., he enjoyed an idle lifestyle at home.Therefore, when I am at home, I also like to think about the scenes of the characters in the novel doing housework, and with the soundtrack of the movie, I imagine myself as the protagonist in the movie or novel doing housework. It's boring, but I feel that my movements are very elegant, just like a movie with beautiful pictures!

When it comes to housework, Murakami fans should find that the protagonists in Murakami's works often cook, and usually eat alone.One of the most common dishes is pasta.In "The Year of Pasta," he writes: "Basically, I cook pasta alone and eat pasta alone. It's not uncommon to have it with someone else for some reason. Still, I like a I think spaghetti is a dish that should be eaten alone. I don’t know why.” In addition to pasta, you can also learn some side dishes from Murakami's works, such as "boil the spinach in boiling water, mix it with dried small white fish, and sprinkle a little vinegar lightly".Or "wasabi pickles and radish puree with shredded fish and potato slices, olive oil, a small amount of salami and potatoes, and then stir-fry together" or even "scallion meat thin slices, onions, green peppers and bean sprouts, stir-fried in a Chinese wok over high heat, Sprinkle salt and pepper, pour soy sauce, and finally pour some beer with a swish.” From a practical point of view, Murakami’s works really have a lot of reference value in daily life!

In addition, Murakami's argument about "sofa" can be said to be very interesting. "I often believe that the choice of sofa can reveal a person's taste - this may also be a prejudice - I think. The so-called sofa is one of the inviolable solid world. But only people who have grown up on a good sofa Will understand. Buying a good sofa like growing up with good books and listening to good music requires considerable insight, experience and philosophy. Although it costs money, it is not enough.” When you need to praise someone When buying a sofa, you might as well borrow Murakami’s sofa philosophy, I believe he (she) must be elated and laugh so hard that he can’t close his mouth.

From "cave" to "smell", and then from "fat girl" to "sofa", in fact, Murakami's works are not for analysis and induction, but for reading, feeling, imagining and aftertaste with heart.For me, Murakami's literature has always been so special, so fascinating.Of course, reading Murakami requires a little patience, but once you enter Murakami's world, you will also enter a unique and irresistible space of another dimension.And the scene of this space can only be experienced by yourself. I have another trip recently, which Murakami book should I take to read?But the Murakami at hand has already read it, why not?Murakami's book is worth reading again and again!