Chapter 14 stay away from japan

Haruki Murakami hides another identity behind his halo as a writer: a traveler.Haruki Murakami's writing is inseparable from traveling. He once spent three years traveling overseas for a long time, just to stay away from Japan and complete his classics and novels. Murakami lives and travels in different places for the purpose of writing novels or translations, and at the same time, there are various travel sketches; the two books "Drums in the Distance" and "Rainy Days and Summers" are Haruki Murakami's travels. These two travel books written during the "Norwegian Forest" period are also the other two travel-themed travel books by Haruki Murakami after "The Frontier".

For Haruki Murakami, travel is not so much an event as it is a feeling of freedom. Perhaps because of the feeling of freedom, the tourist landscape in Haruki Murakami's works seems to have melted away, leaving only the flowing air and the color temperature in the air; The articles in this book seem to be written by Haruki Murakami for his personal interests, and most of the time, they are monologues that cannot be stopped. The travel scenes in "Close Frontier" span America and Asia, including Mexico, China, Japan and the United States. The backgrounds of "Drums in the Distance" and "Rainy Days and Summer" are Europe. The articles collected by the former are mainly from Italy, or mixed with life in Greece, Austria, Helsinki, London and other places; while the latter are from Greece and Turkey. border travel.

For people who are about to travel to Greece, Turkey, Italy, Austria and other places, they may regard "Far" and the second book as alternative travel books; even though there are almost no enlightening elements in these two books, there is no more beneficial Compared with things like cultural theory, however, Haruki Murakami's brushstrokes can help you "feel". Murakami is good at describing situations, and when used in travel journals, the words can easily become landscape postcards in the eyes of readers; , These two books are good catalysts, taking you into the exotic atmosphere.