A Study Of War Writing In Murakami Haruki's Novels

Haruki Murakami is a novelist who can be called a "national writer" in contemporary Japan.His understanding of war profoundly affects Japanese contemporary society and intellectual circles.Murakami's attitudes and perspectives on the issue of war are mainly reflected in his novels.Among them,the four most concentrated works are "A Wild Sheep Chase","The Wind-up Bird Chronicle","Kafka on the Shore",and "Killing Commendatore".From the theme selection,characterization and plot setting of the four works,Murakami's war writing style can be summarized.In his novel,Murakami associates the history of modern Japanese war with synchronic colonial map structure,connects individual novel characters with collective ideology of war,and modern Japanese colonial system and war consciousness.Form as the object of his war writing.Murakami's methods of writing wars are mainly memorization and metaphorization.In his novels,he transformed the history of war into spiritual memories passed down from generation to generation,and formed a metaphorical system of relationships in the creation of character relationships and special scenes,thereby transcending specific war events and expressing the essence of the war mechanism and its regeneration in contemporary Japanese society,the current history of war is finally realized.Murakami's post-modern context,Murakami's novel creation art and the particularity of the war theme determine his war writing style.Murakami's war writing can summarize Murakami's view of war.Murakami believes that the reason for the post-war Japanese to understand war is that the history of war is isomorphic with modern Japanese society,and the absurdity and nihilism in the war mechanism still affect the lives of contemporary people.To truly end the war,it is necessary for modern people to face the violence of war in the self-spiritual structure,and to take historical responsibility for the war consciousness in the human spirit with individual actions and personal positions.Only in this way can we avoid the continuous regeneration of war consciousness in human culture and let the tragic war history not repeat itself any more.Haruki Murakami,as a Japanese national writer,keenly discovered the clues of war hidden behind Japanese modernity,and pointed out a spiritual path for peace and symbiosis in East Asia.