渡边升与村上春树的小说创作

Watanabe Noboru and Haruki Murakami’s Novel Creation

渡边升是自1985年开始频繁出现在村上春树小说中的人物名,但目前学界对其缺乏实质性探讨。本文通过梳理相关小说文本发现,从村上春树小说创作的整体发展来看,渡边升凸显的是一个要在成为个体的前提下,活在现实社会中并试图对现实社会加以改变的人。该人物的频繁出现既表现出作家对这类人物特质的注重,也表明村上文学发生了从不介入到介入的方向性转换。

Watanabe Noboru is a character whose name has appeared frequently in Haruki Murakami’s novels since 1985,but there is a lack of substantive discussion of him in the academic community.In this paper,we find that from the perspective of the overall development of Haruki Murakami’s novels,Watanabe Noboru is a person who wants to live in the real society and tries to change it while being an individual.The frequent appearance of this character not only shows the author’s focus on the nature of such characters,but also signals the beginning of a directional shift from detachment to commitment in Murakami’s literature.