Norwegian forests are full of shade.

I recently read Murakami's Norwegian Forest. This book is so famous, but it has never been opened. In fact, there are very few Japanese literary works. I don't know if it is a case or a common phenomenon. What did you read in the book? Almost every character is full of yin, and even if it is clear, it will feel chest tightness and depression.

Full of spoilers, please skip if you mind.

Muyue, the only good friend of Watanabe High School, committed suicide without warning in the third year of high school.

Muyue's girlfriend Naoko began to be in a trance after Muyue's death, and her sophomore year began to drop out of school for mental recuperation. More than a year later, when her condition seemed to improve, she only left a sentence "Leave my clothes to Reiko Kobayakawa" and found a tree to hang herself.

Naoko's sister, a lively girl with excellent academic performance and everyone loves her, has locked herself in her room for two or three days every month since she was seventeen, and has been lively and cheerful ever since. Suddenly, one day, she hanged herself on the beam in her bedroom.

Reiko Kobayakawa is a person with great musical talent, who is bent on becoming a musician. But before an important performance, her little finger suddenly failed because of excessive tension, so she was admitted to a mental hospital twice.

A piano student in Reiko Kobayakawa, a girl of 13 years old, has the appearance of an angel and the heart of a devil. She is an almost pathological liar, obsessed with controlling other people's emotions, and sent Reiko Kobayakawa to a mental hospital for the third time.

"The Expendables", the roommate of Dai Watanabe No.1 Middle School, became a joke for everyone after dinner because of his cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and people disappeared in the second semester.

Yongze, talented, studious, well-off, philandering, with "strong" personal values, is ready to make a big difference in officialdom and despises incompetent people who have been busy all their lives. He insisted on doing what he wanted to do. As for what will affect others, it is someone else's business, not his.

Rich girl Chumei, Yongze's girlfriend, loves Yongze deeply. Although she knew that Yongze was romantic, would not get married and would go abroad to work, she remained unwavering. She is eager to take care of her husband and teach her children simple happiness, but she suffers from not being able to achieve it with Yongze. After Yongze went abroad, the United States married and committed suicide two years later.

Qing Zi, a girl who is so free that people often can't get rid of her, invited Watanabe to drink, dance and watch porn with her. She likes to joke and tell Watanabe about her sexual fantasies anytime and anywhere. Grandma, mom and dad were hospitalized, operated on and died of brain tumors one after another, and they were always accompanied by Lvzi and her sister in shifts. I may be used to life and death and suffering, and I may have nothing to hide from myself. I will release it when I can.

When the hero Watanabe found himself in love with Yoko and couldn't let go of his commitment and responsibility to Naoko, he was deeply entangled. Knowing that Naoko committed suicide, he fell into the abyss of pain and left Tokyo to be a tramp for a month. Without Reiko Kobayakawa, I don't know if he will recover.

The distinctive personality of the characters is the symbol of an excellent novel. Although the characters in Norwegian Wood have different personalities and experiences, as a reader, I feel another thing in common is pity. Everyone is struggling with depression and pain, some are mental, some are physical, some are directed at themselves, and some are directed at others. In the end, they either destroy themselves or send others to hell.

I don't know how to solve it. When there is nothing human can do, we can only think of God. They seem to need a peaceful religion to save those struggling souls.

The author used the longest chapter to describe the visit to Naoko and the visit to the mental sanatorium named Amikun.

There are a group of "abnormal" people living in Ami, both patients and employees. They know that they are abnormal. Here you should abide by the rules, rest at sunrise and rest at sunset, have three meals a day, feed animals, grow crops, and study according to the schedule every day. You can choose the specific content yourself. If you have a skill, you can also be a teacher here. Reiko Kobayakawa is a music teacher. Among friends, everyone should be honest and help each other. But if you decide to leave here, you can't come back.

The scenery is beautiful, people trust each other, and when they are in it, both the environment and the heart are extremely calm. Maybe this is Tao Yuanming's Xanadu? I even think that this "normal" world is the Ami people composed of mental patients. Life outside is noisy and chaotic, which makes everyone nervous. Philosopher Yi Bihong Lu believes that the true meaning of long-term happiness lies in enjoying simple happiness, such as going to bed early and getting up early, eating healthy, and relationships with relatives and friends. This simple happiness is different from short-term stimulation, and it has no side effects. And Amikun created such an environment.

I think Reiko Kobayakawa, who finally walked out of Amigo, is the only "sober person" in the book. She lived there for 8 years, from patient to employee. She is Naoko's roommate, so she met Watanabe. They walked, chatted, drank coffee together, secretly drank by candlelight and played the guitar. After Naoko died, Reiko Kobayakawa decided to leave Amigo. On the one hand, she felt bored without Naoko, on the other hand, she was worried about Watanabe. Watanabe, who came back from wandering, took Reiko Kobayakawa to the house he rented in the suburbs. They ate hot pot, and Reiko Kobayakawa suggested pouring three glasses of wine and holding a "no sadness" funeral for Naoko again. She picked up the guitar and played Naoko's favorite songs, including Norwegian Forest, of course. Play a song and let Watanabe strike a match. In this way, 565,438+0 songs were played and matched 565,438+0 times. Then, 20-year-old Watanabe and 39-year-old Reiko Kobayakawa went to bed. Watanabe finally walked out of the Norwegian forest and finally put Naoko down. The next day, he ran to his own life. "Lv Zi, I have a lot to tell you!" "

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