"ノ ル ウ ェ イ の の" の の Hand - "グ レ ー ト ギ ャ ッ ビ ー", "magic の Mountain" And の Comparative Study

Haruki Murakami is a famous contemporary Japanese novelist. In 1979, he wrote his first novel Hear the Wind Sing and won the Gunzo Literature Prize. There are a lot of European elements in his works. He is familiar with the European literature and its characteristics. He is very enthusiastic about studying and translating European literature works. Therefore, he learns a lot from these works and puts them into his own ones.Norwegian Wood is Haruki Murakami’s representative work, arousing a great sensation immediately after its publication. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberber are repeatedly referred in Norwegian Wood. It may infer that Haruki Murakami paid great attention to these two works.Comparing the three works, we can find that they have many similarities in writing, which reflects that Haruki Murakami has learned writing skills and absorbed ideas from Fitzgerald and Thomas Mann consciously. What is more, he mingles western culture elements with Japanese ones. Therefore, he developed a distinct writing style of his own.This paper tries to make a comparative study concerning perspectives, space of story and symbolic image between Norwegian Wood, The Great Gatsby and Der Zauberber from the perspective of the theory of narratology, then approaching the origin of Haruki Murakami’s writing mode and proves that Norwegian Wood is modeled after The Great Gatsby and Der Zauberber.