1, Introduction to Kafka by the Sea

The novel is divided into two parts: main line and auxiliary line. The protagonist of the main line part of the novel is a teenager who claims to be Kafka Tamura-the author never gives his real name. He left home alone on the eve of his fifteenth birthday and went to four countries by coach in the evening. The reason for leaving is to escape the father's more terrible prediction than King Oedipus: you will kill your father and have sex with your mother and sister. When Kafka was four years old, his mother suddenly disappeared and took away his sister, who was actually Tamura's adopted daughter, four years older than Kafka, but somehow abandoned her own son. He has never seen a picture of his mother, and he doesn't even know his name. As if fate were guiding him, he came to a private library by accident and lived here. Ms. Saeki, the curator, is a beautiful woman in her forties, with elegant temperament and mysterious twists and turns in her life. Kafka suspected that she was his mother, but Saeki was noncommittal. Kafka fell in love with Saeki and had a physical relationship with him.

There is also a sub-line in the novel. The protagonist of the second line is the old man Nakata. When he was in primary school during World War II, he experienced a mysterious coma. From then on, he lost his memory and completely forgot what he had learned. He could not even read and count, but he gained the mysterious ability to talk to cats. In the case of losing his mind, he killed a madman who claimed to be Johnnie Walker and dressed as an English gentleman painted on a famous whisky trademark, and came here by car all the way. This novel is divided into 49 chapters. Odd chapters basically tell Kafka's story in a realistic way, and even chapters show Nakata's adventures in a magical way. These two techniques are used interactively to weave a modern fable with strong fictional color and absurd complexity. Saeki is the joint of these two stories, but the prediction of patricide seems inevitable in the end, because the madman Gionee Walker is actually Kafka's disguised biological father, and the real murderer is not Nakata.

2. Appreciation of works

The novel adopts a double-line structure in which two clues travel alternately, respectively describing the two protagonists who find the value of self-existence and gain the meaning of life in unfortunate circumstances. One clue is Kafka Tamura's profile of Kafka. When he was a child, his mother left home. When I was a teenager, I was cursed by my father. "When I grow up, I will kill my father and defile my mother and sister." On 15' s birthday, he left home and went to Gaosong County in Shikoku. In the next ten days, he experienced strange experiences such as killing his father in his dream, fantasizing about the love between the library and "mother" (Ms. Saeki), and crossing the forest. With the help of KINOMOTO SAKURA, Oshima and Ms. Saeki, he gained the motivation to live again, and finally returned to real life with a tenacious attitude. Another clue narrates Satoshi Nakata's magical experience in the third person. At the end of World War II, teenager Nakata experienced a "collective lethargy", from which he lost his memory and became an illiterate and mentally retarded person. It is difficult to communicate with people, but he can talk to cats. Living alone with subsidies from * * * seems to shoulder an important mission. While helping people find cats, he was forced to kill Johnny Volcker, the cat killer. Later, he left Tokyo and, with the help of young driver Hoshino, went to Shikoku to find and open the "entrance stone". After completing his mission, he passed away safely, and Hoshino, who had been in a daze, began a new life. Two clues are intertwined: Johnny Walker, who was killed by the old man Nakata, is the father of Kafka Tamura, and the "entrance stone" he uncovered is the "outside population" of Tamura entering the "other world". The novel uses ancient Greek mythology and ancient Japanese legends to launch a stage through time and space in the real and illusory world, and to think and discuss the problems about human survival situation and destiny, such as war and human nature, man and nature, and the relationship between people in modern society.

3. Introduction to the author

Haruki Murakami, a famous Japanese writer, was born in Kyoto. He graduated from the literature department of Waseda University. He entered the literary world at the age of 30 and won literary awards such as Junichiro Tanizaki. His works have been translated into many languages and have had a far-reaching influence all over the world. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University. He started writing at the age of 29, and his first work, Listening to the Wind, won the Japanese group portrait newcomer award. 1987, the fifth novel "Norwegian Forest" sold 4 million copies of Kafka's introduction in Japan, which caused a large-scale "village phenomenon". Haruki Murakami's works show a light tone whose writing style is deeply influenced by European and American writers, and there is little gloomy and heavy writing atmosphere in post-war Japan. Known as the first pure "post-World War II writer", he is also known as1the standard-bearer of Japanese literature in the 1980s 20 1 1165438+1October 2 1, 201.