A Modern Society's Search Through Their Loneliness

After the Second World War, Japan entered into high-speed developed capitalism. The excessive speed of the economy's development directly resulted in the breakdown of the Japanese traditional value system. With this background, loneliness became the existent state of everyone, especially the urban population which cannot escape. As an up-to-date Japanese author who comes from traditional times to modern times, from east to west, Murakami Haruki at all times focuses on everyone in the modern city. There's bewilderment to the future and exploration to find the existent meaning are typical of Murakami Haruki's works. Under the influence of the Humanistic Period, the author commits himself to the search for each individual's free will. "Loneliness'freedom"is embodied by the faint existent state of the characters in the author's novel, offering the premise condition for them to revolt. In order to get rid of the dread which freedom brings, "painful choices"afford a lot of feasibilities to the reader's thinking. This embodies the author's ideal of model individual spirit value and the salvation of modern civilization. Finally, because of the diversion of civilization's inevitability, the author can only explore the way in which people can get away from difficult situations, and find the true meaning of existence hidden deep in the human nature.