Birthday Stories -- Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami

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有關生日的現代短篇小說選集,村上春樹選,也有他的一篇。

出版者:Harvill Press
作者:[日] 村上春樹
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頁數:182
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出版時間:Jan 2004
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裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9781843431596
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Birthday Stories, edited by Haruki Murakami, is a slight dose of morphine for those who are waiting for the English translation of his latest novel, Kafka on Shore. This "timeless anthology" of short stories brings the readers to see birthdays at different angles. There are sober birthdays, and also sweet ones. Stories are selected to provide a wide range of writing styles, from contemporary writer Andrea Lee and Ethan Canin to the famous Raymond Craver, Paul Theroux and Murakami himself. Personally, my favourite picks in the book include: "The Moor" by Russell Banks (a man meeting a woman accidentally on her birthday thirty years later and a love affair involving an age difference of decades is revisited); "Timothy's Birthday" (about how Timothy draws away from his parents after his homoosexual partner died in the previous year); "The Birthday Cake" by Daniel Lyons (a mother who insists on not giving away a cake for their children who are not coming home for celebration); "The Bath" by Raymond Craver (the parental worries on concern on the car accdient of their beloved birthday son; the ending is particularly thought-provoking) and "Close to the Water's Edge" by Claire Keegan (an eminent Harvard student failing to change his lifestyle on his birthday).

The first book I picked up by Ethan Canin was his collection of short stories called The Palace Thief. His writing style already haunted me at that time. What amazes me more in his "Angel of Mercy, Angel of Wrath" is his fast-paced plot and the delicate treatment of the psychology of a paranoid and ignored birthday mother. The dialogues are simple but powerful, short by revealing.

Let's talk about the dose of Murakami morphine. His story "Birthday Girl" is simple and consise to bring out the message that no matter what we wish on our birthdays, we are still what we are. Wishes for a change in fact do not, or cannot, change anything at all". This is similar to the everything-happens-for-a-reason theory in Wild Sheel Chase. The birthday girl in the story does not tell the narrator what she wished on her 20th birthday. Does it matter? Her life still goes on like normal.(Remind me of the ending shot in Lost in Translation!)

This anthology is a fast-read. All the stories in the anthology are very solid, nothing pretentious. It is definitely one of the books you may pick out if you have no dates on the forthcoming birthday - a great birthday companion. What should be mentioned here is the poem (or lyrics?) written by Paul Simon at the beginning of the anthology - "Have a good time". How many of us really had a good time on our past birthdays? Or how many of us expected so? Will we have a (un)happy birthday next year? We don't know. But the characters in the stories tell us that they have something to grasp on theirs - the readers.

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特别喜欢这种灰暗的小故事。人生哪有那么多波澜壮阔,更多的就是一些不会轻易过去的痛苦,我们很清楚又很无奈,因为他们是这个世界的一部分。 《摩尔人》:一个中年小演员,在酒馆遇到了一个过八十大寿的老太太,他二十几岁时的忘年恋人。她关心他当年是不是处男,他关心她有过...  

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说起来,每个人自己的“生日”,大概是所有普通的日子里最特殊的一天了。在大多数的恋爱故事里,“生日”都可能扮演很重要的角色,羞涩的女孩可能要绞尽脑汁猜测心上人的生日,并在那一天送上一份意义不明的礼物;而男孩们则可能会充分利用这样的契机,来制造一个自以为足够...  

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特别喜欢这种灰暗的小故事。人生哪有那么多波澜壮阔,更多的就是一些不会轻易过去的痛苦,我们很清楚又很无奈,因为他们是这个世界的一部分。 《摩尔人》:一个中年小演员,在酒馆遇到了一个过八十大寿的老太太,他二十几岁时的忘年恋人。她关心他当年是不是处男,他关心她有过...  

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因为接连读到威廉·特雷弗的《蒂莫西的生日》和拉塞尔·班克斯的《摩尔人》这两篇以生日为主题的杰出短篇小说,村上春树兴起了编辑一本以生日为主题的短篇小说集的念头。 《生日故事集》于2002年在日本出版了日文版,英文版则于2004年出版。这部小说集精选了十二篇英语文坛的短...  

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太陰暗 棄瞭

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很多作傢作品的收錄,有些沒太明白,有些挺有意思的。

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讀這本書純屬偶然。本以為是村上的作品,拿到手纔發現是他選取的英美短片。但讀來著實有趣,和他自己的寫作風味很閤襯。

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有幾篇還不錯啦,不過感覺沒有村上寫的有味道

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很多作傢作品的收錄,有些沒太明白,有些挺有意思的。

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