Study On The Theme And Style Of Haruki Murakami’s Short Stories

Haruki Murakami (1949-) is one of the most representative and influential writers of today’s Japanese literature. Since1978he started writing, Haruki Murakami published a series of novels and essays, travelogues with incredible energy and enthusiasm, and his unique style and artistic charm wins a wide range of readers in Japan, Asia and even the world. Increasingly marginalized in the literary but commodity economy, information technology highly developed today, the world’s way of life and way of acknowledging has also changed a lot. Persistence and explore more than thirty years, making him the themes and stylistic form of expression have formed their own unique style features. Persistence and explore more than thirty years, making him formed his own unique style features in the themes and stylistic form of expression.Now Haruki Murakami is the highest recognition of the Japanese writer in China,but the domestic critics about his studying are mostly focusing on the creation of his novels, and short stories studied is very little. Indeed, as an important aspect of his literary creation,the creation of Haruki Murakami’s short stories not only adheres to the usual Murakami literary themes and styles, but also because of the freedom genre of the short story and his creative writing ideas, which greatly expanded the theme dimension the writers exploring and provided for writers testing ground of stylistic exercise, so that the creation of Murakami’s short story has the artistic charm that is different from long creation. Meanwhile, the relatively more short and clear short stories of literary forms also provides a convenient way to analyze the characteristics of Haruki Murakami’s literature creation.This thesis taking Haruki Murakami’s short story of creation as the research object, trying to combine macro and micro perspectives, both focusing on the overall grasp of short stories, and establishing the arguments on structured text analysis, comprehensive researches center short stories theme of Haruki Murakami and style features the writer deliberately constructing. The preface makes a brief introduction of the writer and his short stories, and summarizes the study of the history and current status of the subject, and points out the purpose and methods of papers’research. The first chapter discusses the unique creative ideas of Haruki Murakami’s short stories, and analyzes its real impact on the authors novels. The second chapter is about Haruki Murakami short stories’writing theme, the papers takes Haruki Murakami’s focus on individual life as main line, summing up the four main themes that Murakami short stories focus on—Lack of self-subjectivity, loneliness and emptiness of emotional experience, fear that the power of evil and darkness brings and unique concern for the fate of women’s—to study separately, and points out the meaning of exploring the topic about the creation of Haruki Murakami’s short stories. The third chapter is about the main style of Haruki Murakami short stories, pointing out that one of the charm source about Haruki Murakami’s short stories is that the author intends to build and uphold "Haruki Murakami style", and looking for the key of interpretation of Haruki Murakami virtual and real world of fable from among postmodern literary theory, but also examining the value that Murakami short stories creation is as stylistic test site. The final epilogue combining research results of three chapters, emphasizes the value of independent creation of Haruki Murakami’s short stories, and the great significance for Creation Research about Haruki Murakami novels.