出版社: Harvill Press
副标题: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
出版年: Jan 2004
页数: 182
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 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, fro...
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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村上春树 作者
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有关生日的现代短篇小说选集,村上春树选,也有他的一篇。
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有两个凹坑的缓冲杠,以及生日的本质◎村上春树选编『生日故事集』
“惟一所能做的就是忍住不哭”
「害怕庆祝的大人 如今还相信愿望吗」
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六月是每年的生日月。我不喜欢举行生日聚会,一个大方面可能是,除了家人外,感觉和谁都没有亲到适合一起过生日——这毕竟是件太个人的节日,对别人来说有什么意义呢;另一方面,害怕热闹是因为害怕热闹结束后的冷清。但仍然期待生日礼物。 今年六月邀请了一个并不算熟悉的网友... (展开)任何东西都不能将阴影投在那上面!
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有一年圣诞节期间,我选择了阅读杜鲁门•卡波特的《圣诞忆旧集》。很喜欢他记忆中那些事情,有一些让我很感动。感觉在圣诞期间读,就像得到了一个圣诞礼物。因此今年生日前,特意选择了阅读春上春树主编的短篇小说集《生日故事集》。因为一个偶然的事情,他萌生了一个想法,... (展开)祝你人生丰富多彩,任何东西都不能将阴影投在那上面!
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去年生日当天在书店闲逛,货架上刺眼的红色封面一下子抓住了我全部的注意,村上春树编著的《生日故事集》,在生日当天遇到实在巧合,当即买下送给自己当作生日礼物。 书中共收录13个短篇,来自13位风格各异的作家,但顾名思义都有同一个主题——生日。像是命题作文,却又来自不... (展开)> 更多书评 36篇
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0 有用 joesy 2013-12-12 01:02:43
购于华沙火车站。村上自己写的birthday girl其实并没有很看懂 倒是很应景的。。。还是好喜欢Claire Keegan!选集很用心呀好评!
0 有用 FGS 2012-04-22 04:39:57
读这本书纯属偶然。本以为是村上的作品,拿到手才发现是他选取的英美短片。但读来着实有趣,和他自己的写作风味很合衬。
0 有用 whyseeimage 2013-04-04 07:51:28
很多作家作品的收录,有些没太明白,有些挺有意思的。
0 有用 路猗猗 2021-04-08 15:08:01
人与人的关系,本质是疏离。AT field永不消失。
0 有用 飛筆 2008-01-16 09:41:20
有几篇还不错啦,不过感觉没有村上写的有味道
0 有用 路猗猗 2021-04-08 15:08:01
人与人的关系,本质是疏离。AT field永不消失。
0 有用 李青苗 2017-04-03 09:36:22
太阴暗 弃了
0 有用 joesy 2013-12-12 01:02:43
购于华沙火车站。村上自己写的birthday girl其实并没有很看懂 倒是很应景的。。。还是好喜欢Claire Keegan!选集很用心呀好评!
0 有用 whyseeimage 2013-04-04 07:51:28
很多作家作品的收录,有些没太明白,有些挺有意思的。
0 有用 FGS 2012-04-22 04:39:57
读这本书纯属偶然。本以为是村上的作品,拿到手才发现是他选取的英美短片。但读来着实有趣,和他自己的写作风味很合衬。