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1、本文格式为Word版，下载可编辑2022考研英语阅读来自日本的新小说 New fiction fromJapan 来自日本的新小说 Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side; 嗨，去野外散个步吧; A black cat, two moons and a host of nocturnallittle people populate Haruki Murakami s new novel.But has he become more conventional? 在村上春树的新书里，他将一只黑猫、两轮月亮以及一群夜晚小小人拟人化。但他是否变得更保守点了呢? H
2、aruki Murakami filches from George Orwell s Nineteen Eighty-Four for the title of his newnovel, 1Q84, making a play on kyu, the Japanese word for nine, by transposing the letterQ for the number 9. Significantly, the action also takes place over the last nine months of1984. But it would be a mistake
3、to conclude from this that Japan s magical postmodernisthas spent nearly 1,000 pages writing about a dystopian world where couples make love in anash glade, hardly daring to speak because of the all-listening microphones in the trees. MrMurakami s main influence here is not so much Orwell as Philip
4、Pullman; his 1Q84 less astairway to another world than a heave-ho into a whole new universe. 村上春树的新书1Q84书名的灵感来自于对乔治奥威尔1984一书的借鉴。此外，值得留意的是，书里故事发生的时间也是1984年最终的9个月。因此，假如错误地认为这位日本后现代魔幻大师花了近1000页的笔墨，只为描写一个情侣在野外做爱，并由于树上装有全部人都能听到的窃听器而不敢发出丝毫声音的反乌托邦世界，这就错了。但是村上春树在这里的主要影响并不像奥威尔或是菲利普普尔曼一样，他的1Q84一书与其说是通往另一个世界的阶
5、梯，还不如说是完全逃向一个全新的世界。 Sitting in a taxi on the gridlocked elevated Metropolitan Expressway in Tokyo, Aomame, theskinny heroine with asymmetric breasts , is catapulted intoaction when she hears Janacek s Sinfonietta on the radio. Her cabbie tells her she can beatthe traffic by hopping out of the car an
6、d down an emergency staircase at the next exit. Hewarns her that things will not be the same. But it is only when Aomame notices that thepolicemen have swapped their holstered revolvers for bulky semi-automatic weapons thatshe realises she has entered a parallel universe. 当身材纤瘦、两个乳房不对称的女主角青豆坐在一辆出租车里
7、，在堵得水泄不通的东京高速大路上蹒跚前行时，车里广播放着亚纳切克的小交响曲，此时此刻，故事开头了。出租车司机告知青豆说她可以通过走一条四周出口的紧急通道来绕开堵车，不过，他警告说假如她这么做了，事情将会不一样了。但当青豆留意到警察们的左轮手枪变成了笨重半自动手枪时，才意识到自己进入了一个平行宇宙。 This gripping beginning ensures the reader falls for Aomame, forcing Mr Murakami to workextra hard on her counterpart, Tengo, who appears in alternate
8、 chapters in the book.Tengo is an unpublished novelist who keeps to himself, working as a private maths tutor in aprep school. His father was a debt-collector who rounded up licence fees for the NHKtelevision network, dragging his son along with him on Sundays as he called on householdsdoor-to-door.
9、 Tengo s beloved mother died when he was very young, and the boy s earliestmemory is of hearing his mother having her breasts sucked by a man who was not his father.Tengo s flat-pack character fills out as the book evolves, in particular in a long passagewhen he visits his aged father in his nursing
10、 home and tries to talk to him about the past. New fiction fromJapan 来自日本的新小说 Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side; 嗨，去野外散个步吧; A black cat, two moons and a host of nocturnallittle people populate Haruki Murakami s new novel.But has he become more conventional? 在村上春树的新书里，他将一只黑猫、两轮月亮以及一群夜晚小小人拟人化。但他是
11、否变得更保守点了呢? Haruki Murakami filches from George Orwell s Nineteen Eighty-Four for the title of his newnovel, 1Q84, making a play on kyu, the Japanese word for nine, by transposing the letterQ for the number 9. Significantly, the action also takes place over the last nine months of1984. But it would b
12、e a mistake to conclude from this that Japan s magical postmodernisthas spent nearly 1,000 pages writing about a dystopian world where couples make love in anash glade, hardly daring to speak because of the all-listening microphones in the trees. MrMurakami s main influence here is not so much Orwel
13、l as Philip Pullman; his 1Q84 less astairway to another world than a heave-ho into a whole new universe. 村上春树的新书1Q84书名的灵感来自于对乔治奥威尔1984一书的借鉴。此外，值得留意的是，书里故事发生的时间也是1984年最终的9个月。因此，假如错误地认为这位日本后现代魔幻大师花了近1000页的笔墨，只为描写一个情侣在野外做爱，并由于树上装有全部人都能听到的窃听器而不敢发出丝毫声音的反乌托邦世界，这就错了。但是村上春树在这里的主要影响并不像奥威尔或是菲利普普尔曼一样，他的1Q84一书与
14、其说是通往另一个世界的阶梯，还不如说是完全逃向一个全新的世界。 这一引人入胜的开头保证了读者会为青豆而倾倒，这迫使村上春树得花更大的力气去塑造他的另一个人物天吾，在书里，天吾的故事与青豆的故事平行进行。天吾在一所补习学校里担当数学老师，他是个孤僻的业余写手，但他的小说从没发表过。天吾的父亲是NHK公司负责上门收费的收款员，周日的时候会拉着儿子跟他一起到各家各户去收电视有线费。天吾挚爱的母亲在他很小的时候就去世了，而他最早的回忆则是听着一个不是他父亲的男人在吮吸他母亲的乳房。随着小说情节的进展，天吾原本单薄的形象渐渐丰满起来，其中有一大段他的形象特殊突出，这一段描写了他去养老院探望年老的父亲，并
15、试图与父亲谈论过去。 Tengo s life changes when a friend, a grumpy editor named Komatsu, persuades him to cleanup a raw manuscript by a teenage girl, Eriko Fukada, called Fuka-Eri throughout. Komatsubelieves that the girl s autobiographical story, about being raised on a rural commune thatchanges into a sinist
16、er cult involved in mind games and child abuse, has all the makings of abestseller if its style can be improved enough so that it wins a literary prize. Aomame, asmight be expected from a woman who shimmies down from an overhead expressway withoutmuch concern for her stockings or her chestnut- coloured Charles Jourdan heels, turns out tob
