Norwegian forest

Norwegian Wood is a long love novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami on 1987.

? The title of the novel "Norwegian Forest" is taken from a music of the same name by the British rock band Beatles in the 1960s. The lyrics show a young "me" dating a girl in a Norwegian wooden house. This is a quiet, sad and intoxicating song.

? The novel tells the story of lost youth in plain language, tells all kinds of experiences, experiences and feelings of youth-tells the real scenery that passengers on the Youth Express saw along the way. For readers in China, it is likely to be another landscape, lonely, sad and ordinary.

? 100% realistic novel: even if the writing is not natural enough, as long as the reader feels natural, it is realistic.

? Watanabe yearns for and pursues innocence, and the process of pursuing innocence is undoubtedly the process of spiritual growth. In this sense, it can also be said that Murakami believes that "growth novels". This is also a highlight and value of this novel.

Watanabe (I) is eighteen. I just went to college and live in a student apartment. In high school, a good classmate, Muyue, committed suicide at the age of seventeen. Muyue has a childhood girlfriend Naoko. Before Muyue committed suicide, Muyue, Naoko and Watanabe were sometimes together. After Muyue committed suicide, Naoko and Watanabe didn't meet for two years, until one day they met again in the subway and started dating.

At this time, Naoko has become demure and shy, and a shadow that is difficult to capture passes through the beautiful crystal eyes from time to time. They just walk aimlessly in the streets of Tokyo, falling leaves day after day, either before or after, or side by side. On the night of Naoko's 20th birthday, they had sex, but Naoko disappeared the next day. A few months later, Naoko wrote that she lived in a mental hospital in the distant mountains. When Watanabe visited, he found that Naoko began to have the fullness and beauty of a mature woman. Although they shared the same room at night, Watanabe restrained himself and said that he would wait for Naoko forever before breaking up. Shortly after returning to school, Watanabe began to associate with junior Qing Zi because of an accidental meeting. Yoko is just the opposite of Naoko. "It's like a deer jumping into the world in the morning light of spring." . During this period, Watanabe was very depressed and confused. On the one hand, I can't forget Naoko's lingering pain and tenderness, on the other hand, I can't resist Naoko's bold confession and charming vitality. Soon came the bad news of Naoko's suicide, and Watanabe went hiking without soul. Finally, encouraged by Naoko's roommate Reiko Kobayakawa, she began to explore her future life.

My family is in good condition (my father is a well-known dentist). I have a girlfriend (childhood friends who started almost from birth) and a close friend of Watanabe (unique). The three of them often date together and are full of fun. But I don't like socializing. I can't get along with anyone except Watanabe. "Why not show your talents to the wider world and just be satisfied with a small world with only three people?"

On a pleasant afternoon in May, Muyue and Watanabe went to play billiards together.

I played four games. I won the first game easily, and he immediately got serious and won the other three games in one fell swoop.

"How is it particularly serious today?" I asked.

"I don't want to lose today." Muyue smiled with satisfaction.

That night, he died in his garage

There is neither a suicide note nor a motive for inference.

This is a boy who pursues perfection. Why is he so fragile? Does he love Naoko? What about parents and relatives?

? No suicide note, no explanation.

Shakespeare said:

To be or not to be, (to be or not to be)

This is a question worth thinking about;

Silently endure the cruel poison arrow of fate,

Or stand up against the endless suffering of this world,

Sweep them away through struggle,

Which of these two behaviors is more noble?

? Muyue was not ready to stand up against the endless human suffering and chose destruction. He is too young and immature.

? In particular, I would say, like a host, with connotation and humor.

? Only in front of Watanabe, try to hide your weak side and show your good side.

? "In fact, he has always wanted to change and improve himself, but he is always overwhelmed, anxious and sad. Originally, he had excellent and beautiful things, and he had no confidence in himself until the end. He has to do this and change all this-that's all he can think about. "

? Naoko and Muyue are together, without barriers or understanding, but they are out of touch with the world. They are too familiar and dependent, so they have no curiosity, novelty and impulse.

Influence on Watanabe

? "There is only one thing I have to do, that is, I don't want to get too involved in anything and keep a certain distance from everything. What a wonderful pool table, green velvet cushion, red N360 car and white flowers on the table, I decided to put them all behind me. . . . . . The first few days seemed to go well. But no matter how hard I try to forget, there is still a vague thing. . . . . . "

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of life."

"Death has been included in the existence of" I ". The truth is, no matter how hard you try to forget, it's in vain. Because one night in May when I was seventeen, I caught Muyue's death and me at the same time. "

This is all for the living, the dead have gone, the living have begun to think about death, and thinking about death will accompany us all our lives. . . . . . This means puberty growth.

Muyue was Muyue's girlfriend before she committed suicide, and she knew Watanabe very well. After Muyue's death, she suffered from depression and has been in the process of self-help. One year after Muyue's death, she met Watanabe and became his girlfriend. She often walks in the streets of Tokyo with Watanabe, but it is difficult for her to get out of depression. On her twentieth birthday, she spent time with Watanabe and had sex. Later, depression worsened, I went to a nursing home to recuperate, and finally chose to commit suicide.

Naoko's death is comprehensive, with the indifference of family background, the influence of Muyue's death on her, Naoko's departure from social cognition, demanding perfection and rejecting himself. After finding the ultimate savior and self-salvation, she ended her life in despair.

1, everyone has different cognition of society and different feelings about themselves. Although it is difficult to understand, it is very sympathetic.

2. Can Naoko's tragedy be avoided? Watanabe has been working hard, so has Naoko. Perhaps, this is a part of nature. Some people live like this, others live like that. Eventually, they will all die, sooner or later. But work hard anyway.

3. About memory.

However, Naoko's face always takes a while to emerge in my mind like this. Moreover, as time goes on, it takes longer and longer. It's sad, but it's true. You can think of it in five seconds at first, and then it becomes ten seconds, thirty seconds and one minute.

? "I hope you can remember me. Remember that I used to live like this and stay with you like this. Maybe forever? "

……

"Really never forget me?" She asked quietly.

"It will never be forgotten." I said, "How can I forget you!"

……

Nevertheless, the memory is getting farther and farther. I have forgotten many things. During this period of writing this article, I feel uneasy from time to time, because I wonder if I have lost even the most critical memory.

……

Naoko certainly knows that her memory in my mind will be diluted sooner or later. Only in this way, she stressed: I hope you can remember me and remember that I once existed like this.

Thought of here, I can't help but feel sad. Because Naoko never loved me.

In order to fulfill his promise, to fight against the increasingly blurred memory and to bid farewell to the anxiety of death in adolescence, Haruki Murakami wrote Norwegian Forest.

4. About love

Does Naoko love Muyue? Does Muyue love Naoko? Does Naoko love Watanabe? Watanabe said that Naoko loves someone and Naoko needs someone. Is this fair?

? Naoko's roommate in the nursing home. Psychopaths. Playing the piano, I studied in the Conservatory of Music since I was a child, and I can almost take a professional route. Because of too much pressure, my fingers were unexpectedly stiff before a concert, which ruined my career. After two hospitalizations, he seemed to be well, married and had children, but he experienced an unexpected blow, fell ill again, lived in a nursing home for eight years, and met Naoko.

Reiko Kobayakawa has been in the process of self-redemption, but the illness has given her great fear, because mental illness is uncontrollable, and I don't know how to face it. She gave Naoko a great help. Finally, try to get out of the nursing home and start a normal life.

1, don't give yourself too much pressure in life, life is a process, nothing is necessary. On the one hand, you can try to support yourself and provide yourself with the material conditions you think are enough; On the other hand, broaden your horizons and find your own life fun.

2. Many things are uncontrollable and do not depend on your own will, but once you get sick, you will have auditory hallucinations and hallucinations, which will seriously interfere with your life. These are not words of comfort. Say a few words. Don't put pressure on your wife. Don't think too much. This is not something I am familiar with, but I sympathize with it.

? A college classmate from Watanabe, a very realistic person, opened a small bookstore at home when he was a child, and the conditions were OK. He went to a girls' aristocratic school. In high school, my mother died of illness and suffered from illness for two years. In college, my father died of illness and suffered from illness for two years.

? She is more realistic than optimistic.

? She has a passion for life. Sincerely express dissatisfaction with life, try to do what you should do, take good care of your father, and be admitted to college. Pursue a boy you like.

She doesn't look like my type, but her life is very real. Everyone lives in their own real life and makes their own efforts.

It seems a good choice for her to go to the girls' aristocratic school. Her parents are trying to provide her with better educational conditions, but this is pressure for her. Maybe ordinary middle school life will make her happier.

Watanabe's roommate. An ordinary student, with a general family, has requirements for himself, such as being clean and tidy, studying hard and getting up early to exercise; Do not accept Watanabe drinking, do not like star photos and so on. In Watanabe's eyes, he is a strange and funny person.

The goal is to remit the map to the National Geographic Institute.

He is my ideal ordinary person. It would be better if he thought more about humor and fun in life. Who knows if he did?

I live in a boarding house like Watanabe. Family conditions are good, people are smart and study well. Have a goal, prepare for the civil service exam, enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and become a diplomat. It is not difficult for him. He likes to find girls to sleep with, which means a lot, and he is honest, which is a consensual thing. He has slept with at least one or two hundred girls.

Watanabe and Yongze met because they both love reading. After they became friends, they went to sleep with girls, but Watanabe and Yongze didn't have a heart-to-heart relationship. After all, three views are different.

Yong Ze's girlfriend Chumei was a very nice girl, and finally broke up with Yong Ze and committed suicide.

1, and there are such people.

Haruki Murakami spoke highly of The Great Gatsby.

? "The essence of education is to cultivate useful talents for the country." This is the founding purpose of boarding houses, and many people in the financial circles who agree with this purpose are generous ... This is a signboard for the outside world, and the inside story is blurred by the usual tricks. To be clear, no one knows the truth. It is nothing more than a tax evasion countermeasure, saying that it is a pursuit of fame and reputation, and that it is a name to build a dormitory to defraud such a property. Some people even say that it contains a lot of wily.

It doesn't make sense here anyway.

As far as daily life is concerned, there is not much difference between left and right, hypocrisy and falsehood.