The Oriental “Metamorphosis”——Comparison between Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase and Kafka's The Metamorphosis
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摘要: 村上春树深受西方现代小说大师卡夫卡的影响,二人之间的联系可以找到许多佐证。作为“鼠”系列三部曲的最后一部,《寻羊历险记》写“鼠”最后因被“羊”侵入身体而自杀,这一具有魔幻色彩的非现实情节,与卡夫卡代表作《变形记》有异曲同工之妙,存在影响关系。卡夫卡通过《变形记》表达了西方个人在现代异己力量压迫下的被“异化”,“寻羊”即是“寻洋”,《寻羊历险记》则通过相似的故事模型,写出了日本人在外来异己力量侵袭下的自我陨灭,无论在故事模型,还是在小说内涵上,都堪称东方“变形记”。Abstract: As the master of western modernism novel, Franz Kafka had a great influence on Haruki Murakami, and many evidence can be found for the relation between them. Being the last one of the “Nezumi” trilogy, A Wild Sheep Chase describes the deatho “Nezumi” whose body was seized by the “sheep”. This work which contains many magic unrealistic plots has influent relationship with Kafka's The Metamorphosis. They are playing the same tune on different instruments. While in The Metamorphosis, Kafka showed us the “catabolism” of the Western coming from the modern alien power, A Wild Sheep Chase depicts the Japanese's own ruin under the incursive alien power by a similar story pattern. It can be called the Oriental “Metamorphosis” no matter on the story pattern or the connotation.
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Key words:
- Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase /
- Kafka /
- The Metamorphosis /
- “sheep” /
- comparison /
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