Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 335: Which room should I sleep in tonight? Part
"The Ghost of Lexington" is a work written by Haruki Murakami when he went to the United States as a visiting researcher at a university.

Also created at the same time are "Green Beast", "Silence", "Ice Man", "Seventh Man", etc., which are different from other works.

"The Ghost of Lexington" is mixed with some horror elements.

I was alone in an old house in the suburbs, housekeeping for someone, when I heard horrible laughter in the living room in the middle of the night. When I went to check in the morning, there was no one there.

The wife rubbed her hands and stood shoulder to shoulder with Longchuan Che.

The old stone house was dimly lit, and the wooden furniture in the house seemed to have a slightly decayed smell.

"What are these short stories about?"

In the field of pure literature, many works cannot be understood by looking at the external story structure. Even better popular literary works will show their depth through the content.

"The Ghost of Lexington" is a little creepy. The lady tried to talk to Ryuukawa Tetsu to dilute the uneasiness of the lonely mountain.

"The theme of this light-hearted, Western-themed work is loneliness."

Longchuan Che was writing, and the words that came out of his gilded pen were in English.

His styles vary greatly. Works like "Snow Country" tend to be classical literature with art as the top priority, while works like "Youth Trilogy" have their own unique literary explorations.

“Lonely.”

The wife sat on a small linen stool, with her knees crossed, watching the boy write.

The boy was used to pressing down the left corner of the paper when writing. His wife asked him about it, and he said he didn't like the feeling of the manuscript paper curling up.

"You seem to be very touched?"

Ryukawa Tetsu raised his head. He didn't know when Takeda Shinki had moved behind him. His wife was standing shoulder to shoulder with him. He really didn't feel 'lonely' at all.

There was night on the top of the sky, and the cool Wang Feng danced through the gauze window to open the curtains in the room.

Watch the evening breeze blow away the mist from the hot tea on the table.

"It's quite lonely for me to stay in Tokyo alone."

The wife recalled the time she spent in Tokyo two days ago.

In fact, the reason she came to see Longchuan Che was not because of her anger last night, but because of the deep love on the other end of the phone. She was standing on the street of the soba noodle restaurant reading the newspapers, and the sanitation worker who had just got up was sweeping the street alone.

She was overwhelmed by an indescribable feeling of loneliness, so much so that she hesitated for a moment before buying a flight to France.

"Like a fool."

After hearing everything her sister said, Takeda Maki gave a somewhat mocking smile.

It is common for adults to feel sad for a moment, but my sister was so irrational that she came to France.

"At least I won't be running around the streets of Paris in high heels."

The wife retorted sarcastically, and Takeda Shinki's face was abnormally stiff for a moment.

Takeda Maki was a little curious, and she wished she could kick Ryukawa Toru to death, the bastard who told everything.

"From the Youth Trilogy to Norwegian Wood, both of them have the theme of 'loneliness'?"

Loneliness, like love and death, is the essence and norm of human existence, and is also an eternal theme in literary works.

"The moon is bright and the stars are sparse. The crows fly south, circling the tree three times, but there is no branch to rest on." is a kind of loneliness.

'I see no ancients in front of me, and no future generations behind me. Thinking of the vastness of the universe, I am alone and shed tears. 'It is a kind of loneliness.

"The road is as vast as the blue sky, but I alone cannot get out." is a kind of loneliness.

"Where am I now? I am not even there, calling out to Midori in the middle of nowhere. This is also a kind of loneliness."

After taking a look at the "Norwegian Wood" in Takeda Maki's hand, Ryukawa Toru said this.

Haruki Murakami is very concerned about the appearance of life. She believes that life is basically lonely.

Watanabe, Naoko, and Midori in "Norwegian Wood", "I" in the "Youth Trilogy", and the "Ghost of Lexington" in front of us.

“Loneliness seems to be a trait enjoyed by marginalized people who are mostly outside the mainstream of society, but it is not.”

The reason why Haruki Murakami is so popular on the huge international stage is that he writes about the texture of loneliness.

His loneliness belongs equally to everyone in the mainstream and non-mainstream, and to every night in the city when the noise has come to a temporary end.

It is a quiet, peaceful and textured loneliness.

“Loneliness is full of a sense of solidarity. If you write well on this theme, it is normal to win this novel award.” There are cultural differences between the East and the West, but the melody of loneliness seems to be able to overwhelm the North and the South.

The flowing jazz music from the old speakers, the drizzling rain in the evening whose only purpose was to wet the ground, and the flickering lights behind the words of the soul in the distant window like a candle in the wind.

"If my wife can feel lonely, then The Ghost of Lexington can also make Westerners feel lonely."

What is the sense of solidarity of loneliness? Longchuan Che believes that you and I are both lonely, but in the moment of loneliness, I vaguely feel that I am connected with someone far away and with an unknown object in the vast universe.

This is emotional resonance, and if it can be expressed through a work, it will be an excellent work.

"What do you mean I can feel lonely, believe it or not I can kill you with a blow to the head."

The wife gritted her teeth, Longchuan Che looked at her as stupid.

"Ms. Lonely Takeda, who do you feel more connected to in The Ghost of Lexington?"

The sense of solidarity is also called resonance. The wife did not expect that when she talked about her experience in Tokyo, she would be ridiculed by Ryukawa Toru and her sister.

Deciding to give Longchuan Toru a good show later, the wife picked up "The Ghost of Lexington" and started reading.

The story is very simple, it's about me going to Casey's house to help keep watch.

A Japanese writer who traveled to the United States and a fifty-year-old architect.

From the perspective of character development, it is obvious that Japanese writers who leave their hometowns are more lonely.

"this."

The lady mentioned the architect, Casey's name.

"why?"

Longchuan Che leaned over and was a little curious. Everyone has different opinions on the same work.

"After my mother died, my father slept for three weeks straight."

The wife read out lines from The Ghost of Lexington.

The loneliness in Ryukawa Toru's works overwhelmed her just as she did when she was standing at the door of Kodansha.

"I have never seen anyone sleep so long and so deeply. He looked like someone from another world."

The lady frowned, and the sense of loneliness seemed to make her touch Casey in the book.

After his mother died, his father was in a coma for three weeks. In such a big house, and with his father in a coma, he was all alone, like an abandoned child of the world.

"Even if I die now, there is absolutely no one in the world who would sleep with me to this extent."

Casey said this at the age of fifty, and the feeling of loneliness burst out at this moment.

As an American, I went out to find someone to look for a housekeeper, but I could only find Japanese people whom I had only known for a short time and who were not from my compatriots.

The broad and deep sense of loneliness is enough to overwhelm every reader at this moment.

“This is a good short story.”

Seeing her sister engrossed, Takeda Maki nodded.

The work expresses a sense of loneliness and resonates with people.

A complete collection of short stories constructed in this way is also rare in the international market.

"It's very late."

"The Ghost of Lexington" has been completed, and Takeda Maki holds Ryukawa Toru's hand.

She originally wanted Longchuan Che to go to her room to write, and at the same time let him sleep next to her tonight.

"There are only two bedrooms here. You can sleep in mine tonight."

Takeda Shinki domineeringly pulled Ryukawa Toru towards her room, but was stopped by her sister.

The wife who had just said that she was lonely looked at Longchuan Tetsu and blinked.

"I am afraid."

The lady shook the "Ghost of Lexington" in her hand.

"Either we sleep together, or he sleeps with me."

(End of this chapter)