w88 casino News Network (Reporter Wang Mingwei Photography Le Haonan)There is that kind of writing that is restrained and cold but without losing profound connotation and spiritual enlightenment; there is that kind of writing that is beautiful and light but has a lot of sharp brushwork and tenderness.4month2日19:00, Lin Shaohua, the famous translator and professor at the w88 casino of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, was a guest at the University of International w88 and Economics. With his unique understanding of Haruki Murakami, he interpreted the protection and transcendence of loneliness for students.

Murakami’s loneliness from the soul

Murakami is a person who likes loneliness deep in his soul, so his articles always reveal a kind of loneliness that is difficult to conceal. In Lin Shaohua's eyes, Murakami uses words to talk about loneliness, understand loneliness and even try to play with loneliness. The theme of Murakami's novels is always the cycle of loss and search, but the understanding and interpretation of loneliness have experienced changes. In the first fifteen years of Murakami's creation, he was obsessed with explainingThe possibilities that a lonely soul can achieve and the emptiness of man in loneliness. The works of that period were warm, soft and had a petty bourgeois sentiment. At that time, Murakami was a writer in a literary sense, and the loneliness he described was pure spiritual loneliness. In the past twenty years, affected by major events such as the Japanese earthquake, he stepped out of the garden of the soul and turned to examine Japan's system and epidemic diseases. Such works are cold and rigid, and the loneliness in the articles mostly comes from the daily life of urban people. "The works of the first fifteen years were Murakami's feelings and confessions about loneliness. It was like digging a hole, digging out the feeling of loneliness, but the depth of the digging was different; in the next twenty years, Murakami tried to connect loneliness and communication, and this communication even extended to history and religion." But recently, Haruki Murakami has made further changes in his style. He is eager to further understand the inner loneliness, and has added elements of self-identity and self-therapy to his works. Murakami's loneliness seems to be the loneliness of marginalized people, but it actually applies to everyone. That loneliness is a profound reminder of whether you truly own your own soul. Those who are lonely do not need comfort, because loneliness itself is a kind of comfort and a kind of beauty.

Protect loneliness, protect compassion and warmth

Lin Shaohua said frankly that Murakami’s works are not so-called Pegasus Glacier or rainbow-like momentum, and the plots are not impeccable and coherent. The real significance of his works lies in the protection of loneliness. The solitary people who keep themselves clean quietly guard their own solitude. Some of them stand out, while others do nothing. But the nation and the country need the best who can grow from loneliness. For those mediocre loners, although few people know their names, they have settled souls and the courage to persist in free thinking. This kind of mediocrity is far better than vulgarity.

Transcendence from Little Loneliness to Great Loneliness

But at the same time, Lin Shaohua also mentioned that excessive pursuit of loneliness will inevitably lead people to morbid self-admiration. Too much spiritual superiority makes loneliness a spiritual refuge to avoid social responsibilities. But modern young people cannot just immerse themselves in their own little loneliness, but remain calm about the negative phenomena of society. "People need to transform the small loneliness of being alone into the great loneliness of helping the world." Lin Shaohua said this about the loneliness that modern young people should have. In Lin Shaohua's view, today's young people study a lot, but lack the ambition to contribute to the world and the conscious critical consciousness. Their indifference to society and their appeasement of a bad system will leave this country with a lack of direction in the future. Therefore, he believes that young people should get out of the apartments, bars or Internet cafes where they live all day long, truly judge the world and assume social responsibilities.