表象与真相之间--解析村上春树小说《天黑以后》中的暴力元素

Beneath Appearance and Truth --An Interpretation of the Violence Elements in 'After Dark' By Haruki Murakami

暴力是村上春树《天黑以后》这部作品的最大主题。本文以长篇小说《天黑以后》为例,结合人物形象、写作手法、创作背景、政治时局等,分析了作者寄于现实世界与非现实世界意象背后的所指,即由国家性的暴力带来的种种后果及年轻一代对于重审历史的意识觉醒,以及社会性的暴力及隐藏在人性深处的暴力倾向。由村上对于暴力过后日本民族的自我缺失的揭露,以及希冀弥合由暴力带来的伤害,指出其呼吁人们通过对暴力的认知和对人性的思考重新正视历史,表明了其身为日本作家的历史责任感和担当。

Violence is the biggest theme of Haruki Murakami's "After Dark". This paper takes the novel "After the Dark" as an example, combining the characters, writing techniques, writing background, political situation, etc., and analyzes the author's indication behind the real world and the non-real world image, which is, the consequences of national violence, and the younger generation's awareness of the re-examination of history, as well as social violence and violent tendencies hidden in the depths of human nature. By exposing the self-deficit of Japanese nation after the national violence,and hoping to make up for the harm caused by violence, Murakami called on people to re-visit history through the cognition of violence and thinking about human nature, which shows his responsibility to history as a Japanese writer.