Author: Wang Cheng In the contemporary Japanese literary world, there are two writers surnamed Murakami who are famous all over the world.One is Ryu Murakami and the other is Haruki Murakami.Many readers in our country have read many works of Haruki Murakami, such as "Dancing Steps of Youth" and "Listening to the Song of the Wind" have been translated into Chinese.Murakami Ryu, who became famous a few years earlier than Haruki and had a certain influence not only in Japan, but also in Europe and the United States, has not been understood by Chinese readers for a long time.When he was weak, he created "Approximately Infinitely Transparent Blue", which won the highest award of pure literature in Japan in the first half of 1976 - the Akutagawa Award, and jumped onto the Japanese literary world. He created a new genre for the Japanese literary world - Transparent family.After being adapted and directed by the author himself, "Approximately Infinitely Transparent Blue" became very popular in Japan, and the term "transparent family" has been widely spread since then.Ryu Murakami is the standard-bearer of the "transparent family" writers, who challenge the existing literary system and artistic tradition with brand-new literary techniques, and instead express a feeling with a style that has no three-dimensionality, no pursuit of ethics, and value judgments.A group of young people described in the novel, facing the social reality full of contradictions, become self-defeating, decadent and boring because of their inability to resist the social reality, killing their youth and playing with their lives.

The story space of "Approximately Infinite Transparent Blue" is set in Yokota, a city near Tokyo where the US military base is stationed.The protagonist Aaron and his friends are in their prime.Everyday life is addicted to rock 'n' roll, drugs, gangs and violence.They mixed with the American soldiers at the base and were willing to be the "dolls" of the American soldiers.Youth is spent in depravity, and life becomes worthless.They are a group of wanderers far away from their hometown, and even more lonely children who have lost their spiritual home.All this is expressed in images of illusion and reality, noise and turmoil.When they are tired of this dirty life like "moths" and "cockroaches", the desire to return becomes stronger.In the novel, Maier tells Aaron that he is going back to his hometown, Aaron returns to his hometown in Toyama, and the young man named "Okinawa" always mentions going back to Okinawa. The city, the palace...all the characters are looking for their own destination, but where is their real hometown and spiritual home, which undoubtedly reveals the occupation of Japan by the US military after World War II.The long-term existence of US military bases has caused many contradictions in Japanese society.Such a social system is exactly the "big black bird" hallucinated by Aaron in the work, which makes people feel horrible.The protagonist can only find himself in hallucinations, and can only see "approximately infinitely transparent blue" in the glass shards stained with his own blood.

The dissolute youth described in the works can be said to be a kind of resistance adopted by Ryu Murakami in the face of the powerful and unchangeable reality.In "Murakami Ryu's Selected Stories Collection" and "Consumed Youth", he said that his youth was a disgusting era that he did not want to mention again. Facing many setbacks, he strongly realized the importance of youth. Reluctantly, he transformed the youthful vitality accumulated in his body into a burst of "hippie" decadent passion, boldly expressed in the novel.His "Approximately Infinite Transparent Blue" made the implicit and hazy sexual description tradition of Japanese pure literature represented by the Akutagawa Prize begin to collapse.In his works, all kinds of feelings are left to flow naturally without adding any value orientation.Strong and vivid images are fixed in the article by virtue of intuitive and sculptural vocabulary.The well-known critic Karatani Hitoto said that Ryu Murakami has an American-style animal imagination.Dealing with Chunshanglong's system works does not rely on stylistic modification, it is enough to present the instinctive feeling in the article intuitively and concretely.Various images in his articles interweave with each other; like oil paintings with heavy colors, they appear alternately due to hallucinations.A large number of life-like characters and objects make readers see their "voices" as if they were seeing them.It is this frankness that makes his style shock many readers.