On The Narrative Art In Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami’s novel Killing Commendatore,which took seven years to publish,is a masterpiece of his novel creation,and it has received widespread attention once it came out.In this work,Murakami continued his attention to war and violence,portraying the Nanjing Massacre for the first time.This makes domestic readers take it seriously.Therefore,the domestic academic circles’ research on the work focuses on the concept of war,good and evil,etc.,and few scholars discuss the narrative art of the work.But this magnificent work reflects Murakami’s superb narrative skills everywhere.The uniqueness of the narrative perspective of this work is the alternation of the dual narrative perspective in the first person and the limited perspective in the third person.This has not only created many vivid and three-dimensional characters such as Akikawa Marie and Mikaru,but also with the continuous insertion of the narrator’s comments,the novel is full of unknowns and suspense,which greatly enhances the narrative tension of the text.At the same time,in terms of narrative time,thanks to the use of analepsis and prolepsis,the plot is even more varied.Murakami’s emphasis on the rhythm of the work is also vividly reflected in this work: the story sometimes stops at the climax,and sometimes it breeds undercurrents in peace.The repetitive narration further highlights the theme of the work.Because the narrative space-time constructed by this work is very broad,the narrative structure of the work presents a precise and rigorous state.Multiple story clues are intertwined and intertwined,moving forward together,so that it not only contains a warm and touchable picture of daily life,but also is full of dangerous and fantasy experiences in alien space.There are not only grand thinking about the heavy human history,but also the pursuit of the insignificant self-existence and the limits of freedom,as well as the examination of the human essence in the general sense.Such a wealth of content,coupled with the opening of the end of the story,bring readers a hearty,unfinished and extraordinary reading experience,and also gives the work a vast explanatory space.In addition to the suspense,arrogance,and turbulence of the story,the other reason why this work is so fascinating is that it uses intertextual narrative strategies to construct a vast intertextual world.Whether it is intertextuality with non-literary fields of music,classic literature,or other works of Murakami,it expands the depth of the novel text and makes the work more profound and extended.It can be seen that studying the work from the perspective of narrative art can not only taste Murakami’s writing techniques from the form,but also appreciate the theme implication contained in the text from the content,and better understand Murakami’s conscience and sense of historical responsibility as a humanistic intellectual from the ideological perspective,thereby comprehending the unique artistic value of Murakami’s work.