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On The Urban Writing In Haruki Murakami’s Novels

Posted on:2015-05-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y TianFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330434457092Subject:Chinese Language and Literature
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Haruki Murakami is, born in January1949, one of the most famous Japanesewriter among contemporary writers. He wrote a contemporary city space in hiswriting works, and concerns the fate and survival value of ordinary people. Hisexperience of city life from the city middleman, to a distance of city edge, expressedthe change from ordinary people to the identity of the writer’s career for HarukiMurakami. It is because of his unique identity and perspective to observe, so hecreated a sophisticated urban space and diversity urban connotations.In his novels, there are three different literature spaces from Haruki Murakami’sworks which are nostalgia city, capital spending space and fantasy space. Such asluxury building, lined with high-rise buildings, noisy bars or cloistered siege, unrealbut wonderful wonderland etc. He works in the creation of each, but also carefullyconstructed city of its city space of Literature. The three space also reflects his worksin the past, present and future of the three time dimensions. Haruki Murakamiexposure to the complex and diverse urban background, he use double space narrativestyle and in the stream of consciousness narrative style, to tell the space shuttle in thecity all the stories. Like space parity parallel narrative chapters, showing absurd buttrue living space. As well as psychological changes instead of the passage of time,highlighting the sense of fragmentation of urban space, the emptiness of thecharacteristics of its pen portray complex and layered urban space. Behind his citywriting,he builds a three-dimensional sense of urban space,reveals the predicament ofmodern cognitive state of existence. Haruki Murakami is also looking for a space totry to break the shackles, expressing the reflection of the problems in modern societyand the value of human existence.
Keywords/Search Tags:Haruki Murakami, Urban Writing, City Space
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