Essay on Haruki Murakami’s The Last Lawn of the Afternoon:The Shadow of America Lurking in the Everyday Order  

作　　者：Tatsuo Takahashi 

机构地区：[1]Senshu University,Tokyo,Japan

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2018年第7期989-997,共9页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：The Last Lawn of the Afternoon is one of Haruki Murakami’s most important early short stories.In this paper,I avoid conventional arguments,focusing my analysis on the encounter between the middle-aged woman and Boku,and the work’s historical backdrop and setting instead.This reveals how Boku’s personal experience speaks to the everyday lives of Japanese citizens at the mercy of circumstances in postwar Japan under American influence and international events.It appears that Murakami attempts to convert the personal minority“memories”,lurking in the everyday order of postwar Japan,into“novels”as open collaborative storiesin his early short stories.

关 键 词：Haruki Murakami America’s influence POSTWAR Japan the student movement the Vietnam War 

分 类 号：G633.41[文化科学—教育学]