Chapter 22 looking for a well

How to treat Haruki Murakami is a work I have been working hard on.The difficulty of the work is not because of the inexhaustible depression and chaos in Murakami's writing, but because of his own sense of powerlessness in the face of feelings of liking and even admiration. Almost all of Murakami's texts are narrated in the first person.This makes the article look like "a conscious babble".The emotions of the article are undercurrent. When you read it, the reader seems to have grasped something, but when you think about it, you suddenly find that in fact, what you grasped never dared to convince yourself.

To discuss Murakami, we must first talk about Japanese literature. Japanese literature often takes femininity, slenderness, subtlety, and sentimentality as its basic spirit.But Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe fully inherited the gist of Japanese literature.In this country that maintains the lyrical tradition, there are writers Haruki Murakami who have nothing to do with the theme of Japanese literature.The fundamental reason why Murakami became a writer with world influence is that Murakami abandoned the national spirit other than literature, and explored the inner world that is generally unknown to human beings.This exploration coincides with a certain mood of this era.For example, a sense of nothingness, or a sense of loss.At the same time, this exploration is full of Murakami-style understanding and love.When it comes to understanding and love, I have to mention the common problem of modern Chinese novels: these two things are seriously lacking.Chinese novels have always had a clear purpose, because there must be one.But I don't know that in fact there are many things that are meaningless and nothing to say.For example, one morning in winter, when you wake up and open the window, you suddenly find yourself in a dense fog. Your feeling makes you sad, just like a physiological reaction.There is no reason and no room to deny this feeling.This is Murakami style.

Murakami often mentions his favorite jazz, spaghetti and other words in his text.Lin Shaohua fully analyzed the significance of its existence in the preface.No description here. As Murakami's works on the market are almost translated by Lin Shaohua alone, although I always think that Murakami and Lin Shaohua are like coffee and coffee partners, Lin Shaohua may not fully translate Murakami's inner world.Everyone has their own Murakami. Looking at this must be the third Japanese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature from different angles (personal thoughts), I must have a more "complete" understanding.The reason why I didn't use "perfect" to describe it is because I doubt whether Murakami knows himself 100% already.

Talk about some kind of complex or interest that Murakami has for "well".Murakami mentioned the well as Naoko: "There is a well in the wilderness. I don't know if it really exists." Naoko's words made Watanabe's fantasy about this well appear in his mind: "I The only thing I know is that the well is so deep that I don’t know how deep it is; the shaft of the well is so black that it’s as if all the black brains in the world have been boiled in it.” At the same time, Watanabe and Naoko couldn’t find it. to where the well is.So, Naoko said to Watanabe, don't deviate from the right way.As a symbol of loneliness and death, the well exists in Watanabe's heart in "No", and also exists in Murakami's consciousness.The reason why Murakami mentioned the well at the beginning of the novel may be to remind everyone that we all live in our own wells, which is the root cause of our emptiness and loss.Only by holding the hand of the loved one tightly in the heart can it be possible to save each other.

In the novel, "I" treats the well as another world different from the real world as an excellent place to think about reality.In the well, the memory of "I" began to have unprecedented power, and the fragments of the memory itself began to be vivid and real.And in the dark well, "I" couldn't help but think, "The so-called physical body, in the final analysis, is nothing more than a temporary shell formed by properly arranging symbols such as chromosomes for consciousness." Interestingly, "I" wanted to prove that For his own existence, he folded his ten fingers together in the dark well, and confirmed the existence of the five fingers of the right hand with the five fingers of the left hand.Going down the well is to think about reality.Because, "I" feel that it is best to think about reality as far away from reality as possible.And when "I" realizes that I have spent a day in the well, "I" puts forward to myself, "My absence for a day will not affect anyone, right? Even if I disappear completely, the world will be painless. Doesn't it work right?" These are scary but real questions.Of course, "I" came to the conclusion very clearly in my heart: I am no longer needed by anyone!At this time, the well no longer exists as an excellent place to simply think about reality, but a concrete, non-imaginary world that melts in the blood of "I".Of course, this melting has a compulsive and involuntary passivity akin to power.As a concrete thing, the well has been raised by Murakami to another world that confronts the real world.Of course, reality and the world are not opposed, they are in an equal relationship.If the reality is noisy, but this world is absolutely quiet.If reality is the physical world, this world almost acts as a gateway to the hidden inner world of human beings.

The wells mentioned in these two places invariably raise such a secret question mark: Is a lonely life just facing a world that cannot be understood? Use a sentence from Murakami to end the discussion about the well: In order to think about reality, you need to find the deepest well in your own world and go down to the bottom of the well.