《天黑以后》与村上春树文学的世界性

After Dark and the universal significance of Haruki Murakami's literature

村上春树对日本的战后社会体制持有严厉的批判意识。本文以长篇小说《天黑之后》为例,分析了这种意识是如何体现在其作品之中的。同时指出,这种创作姿态显示了村上文学与世界文化的接轨,是其文学具有世界性意义的体现。村上作品中的人物,一般都反映了现代都市人内心的孤独、压抑。随着物质文明的发展和社会的现代化,都市人的精神世界始终与压力、寂寞、空虚为伴,人性的正常部分遭到扭曲,甚至埋没。按照村上的理解,这些正是不折不扣的暴力和"恶"的体现。通过描述暴力和"恶",村上一方面批判日本的近代社会体制,一方面也促使读者从近代社会所具有的普遍性、共时性的角度展开反思。

Japanese writer Murakami Haruki holds a severe critical attitude towards the social structure of his country after the Second Word War. This paper analyzes this critical attitude in his novel After Dark,and reveals that this critical gesture in his literary creation is a communication with the world culture,an embodiment of the universal significance of his literature. The loneliness and depression of urban men in modern times are well reflected through the characters in Murakami's works. Along with the social modernization and the material progress,the urban men in modern times are always entangled with pressure,loneliness and emptiness. As a result,the normality of humanity is often tortured,or even buried. According to Murakami's comprehension,it is the undisputable violence and evil that he manages to criticize in his works. By means of describing such violence and evil,on the one hand Murakami criticizes the social system of Japan in modern times,and on the other hand,readers are expected to introspect the modern society in the perspective of its universality and contemporaneity.