Haruki Murakami and His Realistic Style: The Japanese Aesthetic Taste in Norwegian Wood

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10.2991/assehr.k.220706.147How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Haruki Murakami; Norwegian Wood; Japanese traditional aesthetics; Realism

Abstract

There is a subtle distance between Haruki Murakami’s works and Japanese traditional literature and modern literature. Norwegian Wood also has a subtle distance because of its differences from Haruki Murakami’s other works. This paper takes Norwegian Wood in this delicate relationship as the object of analysis and explores the Japanese traditional aesthetic concepts and expressions in the conception of this work. Through the Japanese traditional aesthetics ideas and concepts, this article, embarks on Norwegian Wood’s realistic angle of view, through details of this work, completes the analysis through the comparison technique. In this work, the realistic perspective brings a series of writing contents that conform to the traditional Japanese aesthetic elements, but Watanabe, as the plot promoter of the realistic perspective and the motivation of the story unfolding, does not make the works present a highly consistent creative purport with the traditional Japanese aesthetics. Realism is the prominent feature of this work, but the difference between Norwegian Wood and other works is not the deliberate result of Murakami. As for the reproduction of traditional Japanese aesthetics, it is not for the explicit purpose of writing.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yingcheng Huang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/14
TI  - Haruki Murakami and His Realistic Style: The Japanese Aesthetic Taste in Norwegian Wood
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 779
SN  - 2352-5398
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