Empty And Fantasy:Literature For Young Children In Haruki Murakami’s Novel

Haruki Murakami (1949——is a Japanese writer and translator.His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Jerusalem Prize,among others.Haruki Murakami has created rebellious images filled with resistance on most of his works. The majority of works from Haruki Murakami are expressing the eager of freedom.This kind of rebellious spirits emerged in his first work,that is Hear the Wind Sing. Another his work,Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world,also explored the rebellion and self-esteem.These two works were regarded as Literature for Young Children by Kawamoto Saburo who is a Japanese critic.However this concept was not fully demonstrated.This theses analyzes Haruki Murakami’s Literature for Young Children with the combination of intensive reading and the theory of narrative point of view.In these two Literature for Young Children, figures are filled with the spirits of rebellion.They can not blend into the real world, only to persue their own life and chase the total self-world of spirit. Although they didn’t get rid of the real world, they didn’t follow the bad example of it.As a child.they try to focus on keeping themselves away from the bad in order to keep purity of their heart.These two works present the beauty of empty and fantasy.Behind the beauty is the substance of following self and spirit.The personality of Young boy and Fighter from Haruki Murakami state the eager to get freedom and Literature for Young Children. After the Literature for Young Children, the author focus more on the social responsibility,turn to caring about the world from getting away.The Literature for Young Children then try to expose the reality and history.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a typical work that inspire Haruki Murakami to create.The rebellious figures in his works are very common,meanwhile the Literature for Young Children has lead readers to get consolation of freedom.