棒球棍、青痣、井——《奇鸟行状录》意象浅析

The Baseball Bat,the Green Mole and the Well:an Analysis on Core Imageries of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

《奇鸟行状录》是村上春树创作生涯的转折点,从这部作品开始,村上小说由前期所关注的内心世界转为更开阔的社会问题。本文通过深入分析《奇鸟行状录》的三个核心意象——棒球棍、青痣和井,与作品抗击暴力的主题相挂钩,最后回到日本现代社会中不断传承的暴力体系的分析,以及作品对于侵华战争责任的反思,讨论作者通过这三个意象所要表达的主题:抗击暴力、铭记历史、反思战争责任。

The Wind -up Bird Chronicle is the turning point of Haruki Murakami as a writer, from which Haruki began to pay more attention to social issues of significance than to human＇ s inner world of mind in the earlier stage. In this thesis, the three core items, namely the baseball bat, the green mole and the well, all of which are related to the novel＇ s theme of combating against violence, are deeply analyzed. In the end, the continuous violence system in modern Japanese society, and the author＇ s pondering on Japanese Aggressive War against China, are contained in this thesis. All in all, the theme of the novel are combating against vio- lence, bearing in mind the past and pondering upon the responsibility for the aggressive war.