おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
村上春樹「街とその不確かな壁」発売時の記事。
エッセイや旅行記も持ってたけど、最近断捨離して厳選したものだけKindleで買い直しました。新しい長編はもういいかなー初期作品を何度も読み直す付き合い方にする予定。
Throng
意味 [a ～/～s of A]多数の A
Throngs of fans joined late night queues outside bookstores across Japan last week, eager to lay their hands on Haruki Murakami’s new novel – his first in six years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65259722
merely
意味 (かたく)[名詞句の前で]単なる, ただの
For many readers, the plot points are merely jumping-off points for explorations of loss, isolation, identity and increasingly, social and political events.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65259722
prolific
意味 〈作家· 芸術家などが〉多作の.
Six years isn’t the longest time between books, and Murakami has been prolific over a four-decade career. He’s produced at least 14 novels and several short-story collections with works translated into more than 50 languages.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65259722
確かに多作。京極夏彦の新作の盛り上がりと比べちゃいけないけどｗ（京極氏はメインシリーズ以外は多作だから例としては悪いなｗ）
気づいたらエッセイや短編集も増えててファンは追いかけるの楽しいだろうな。
trope
意味 [C] [修辞] 比喩; 比喩的用法.
Murakami tropes are so well known they even inspired a bingo cartoon, published in the NY Times’ Sunday Book Review in 2014. Murakami bingo includes an “ear fetish, a “mysterious woman” or “faceless villain”, “urban ennui”, “Tokyo at night” and various supernatural spookiness and things vanishing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65259722
私も村上春樹の比喩表現が好き。くすっと笑えるものが多い。なので全体の筋とかはあんまり気にしないｗ
elude
意味 〈望むものが〉〈人〉の手に入らない.
But for some, the misogyny in Mr Murakami’s works is hard to overlook, and that could be one reason as to why literature’s biggest honour has eluded him for so many years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65259722
いやー…もっと手前で引っかかってるんじゃないのかな…。他の有名作品の名前をちょいちょい作品内に出すのもあんま印象良くない気がする。何となく。
