Requesting books: "69 Ryu Murakami", "A Good Weather Alone by Nanae Aoyama", "These Are the Love You Give Me", "The First Intimate Contact"
《69》
“It is a sin to live unhappy. I can’t forget the teachers who hurt me in high school. Except for a few who are purely The exceptions are the teachers who really want to take away something very important from me. They continue to work tirelessly to turn humans into livestock. They are the symbol of "boredom" and this situation has not changed yet. And it is likely to get worse. However, in any era, powerful people such as teachers and police are very powerful. If we just fight, we will be the ones who suffer in the end. I think the only way to retaliate is. Live happier than they do. A happy life requires energy. That’s the fight I continue to make to this day so that all the boring guys can hear my laugh. I think I will continue to fight until the end of my life."
1969 was an important year, and many things happened in that year. ?The University of Tokyo canceled its entrance examination, rock music became popular, the Beatles released three albums, the Rolling Stones released their best singles, and hippies with long hair and advocated love and peace appeared. In the turbulent but colorful era when Charles de Gaulle stepped down in Paris and the Vietnam War was at a stalemate, a high school student named Kensuke Yazaki was immersed in the Western culture spreading eastward at that time and came into contact with rock music, avant-garde movies and hippie culture. For the girl he likes, he decided to block the campus and hold a carnival with Adama. The motive was simple, but the result was unexpected...? In the spring of 1969, the life of a 17-year-old stretched out like a celebration.
"Good Weather Alone"?
"I still often make this mistake. I put the rags I collected into empty shoe boxes and put them away. Now There are three such shoe boxes in the closet of my room. Occasionally I will look through these shoe boxes and be immersed in memories. I will sometimes cry with sadness and sometimes burst into laughter. When I play with any of them, I feel at ease. However, after I finish admiring them, I will call myself a thief, worthless, and shabby. Every time I do this, I feel that my skin is thicker. . No matter what others say, I must remain unmoved and be myself. This is to train myself, I said to myself while closing the shoe box. "
"One person's good. "Weather" describes the story of a part-time job girl getting along with her elderly relatives while pursuing herself and independence. The various encounters and emotions of a girl who is on the path to independence are heart-wrenching in her work, life and love. The novel is full of them The hardships of being a freelancer ("freeter"). The content reflects a current social problem in Japan, that is, many young people do not want to work full-time and work here and there, preferring to be freelancers. They do not want to grow up, are unwilling to take responsibility, cannot be independent, and are afraid to go out and see the world. But I don't know where this fear comes from. According to Japanese official statistics, the number of short-term workers aged 15 to 34 doubled between 1996 and 2004, reaching 214,000. The survey also shows that people who work part-time jobs have unstable incomes and their chances of getting married and having children are greatly reduced. This is a big warning for Japan, which has a serious birthrate. The author Nanae Aoyama said in an interview with reporters: "I want to tell them that as long as you are willing to take the first step, there will be a way out." She hopes that her work can help them "take the first step."
The winning work of the 2007 Akutagawa Prize?, In "One Person's Good Weather", which was selected as the winning work, the restrained emotions of the protagonist (a twenty-year-old woman) are throughout, making the novel interesting. It gives off a quiet, sad tone. Moreover, this tone has not strayed from the basic point of real society. The middle part is a bit lengthy and the novel is too long. Although these two points are shortcomings, after reading it, even this has turned into a rhythm that expresses youthful and tired vitality.
"These are the love you gave me"
"Hope? When you are lost, there is a car in front of you. You can let me follow you. When it is cold, there is a bed with an electric blanket. ?When you have diarrhea? You are not far from home? When you are sleepy? You have a lot of time to sleep? When you don’t know what to say? You will look at me tenderly and laugh at my lack of words? When I am not cute? Enough is enough. ?When I am lonely, I know you love me."
As his best partner, the illustrator echo, said, "This is that period of youth that each of us will go through. You love stupidly. That time when someone loves you innocently has been written about, sung, and performed over and over again, many, many years later, in a book, a piece of music, and a piece of drunken light. Here, I suddenly remembered that time.
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