一部充满隐喻的成长小说——解读《海边的卡夫卡》

A Novel of Initiation Fraught with Metaphor——Interpreting Kafka on the Shore

本文是对日本当代著名作家村上春树的小说《海边的卡夫卡》的文本细读。从作品中存在的隐喻含义入手,大致理清了文本可能存在的解读途径,并指出作者对主人公命名的寓意,以及对西方小说惯用“俄狄浦斯情结”手法的成功运用,均象征着作者对人类成长经历的一种回顾,引发了当代人对自身成长过程的思考。

This paper is meant to be a close reading of Kafka on the Shore, written by the famous Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Starting with the metaphors in the novel and then suggesting possible ways of interpre-tation, the paper goes on to point out the implications of the hero＇s naming and the successful application of the Oedipus complex strategy often employed in western novels, both of the initiation experience of human beings and trigger thoughts cess. of which symbolize the author＇ s retrospection initiation process.