When reading Haruki Murakami's novels, I mostly have no idea what he is talking about at the very beginning of the story. It's not that I can't understand the sentences, but that I can't understand the "why". For example, in A Wild Sheep Chase, the beginning mentions divorce from his wife, as well as earmold photos, postcards sent by friends and so on. These are scattered in my mind like fragments, and I have no idea what the author really wants to express. Before reading it, my expectation was, isn't this a story about searching for "sheep"? It was not until later, with my confusion, that I followed boku to the Dolphin Hotel and then met Dr. Sheep, which gradually brought me back to what I thought was the process of finding the sheep.
Not only that, the same feeling is felt when reading a new short story by Haruki Murakami. Why would a man enter a room with a black travel bag, take out stockings, high heels and cheese cookies, and then answer a strange phone call? Why would a detective open an agency on the shabbiest street in Sydney, even though he is rich? Why would a stockbroker disappear in the stairwell from the 24th floor back to the 26th floor for a full twenty days?
It was not until I read Suter 's modernity that I seemed to have found a possible explanation. The word "imaginary" is mentioned in it. What interests Haruki Murakami is the United States imagined in his mind. So these things mentioned may not be reality, but the symbols mentioned in the modernity book. This makes readers realize that what we are reading is not a "true" story, but a text constructed by the text itself. Therefore, I feel that when reading Haruki Murakami's articles, one should not attempt to "understand" everything but rather feel it. It was not until later that we returned to the answer we were looking for.
Zihan Yan (Vivian)
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