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挪威的森林 ---- 村上春樹
37歲的我端坐在波音747客機上,龐大的機體穿過厚重的夾雨雲層,俯身向漢堡機場降落。11月砭人肌膚的冷雨,將大地塗得一片陰沉,使得身披雨衣的地勤工、呆然垂向地麵的候機樓上的旗,以及BMW廣告板等的一切的一切,看上去竟同佛蘭德派抑鬱畫幅的背景一段。罷了罷了,又是德國,我想。
飛機剛一著陸,天花板擴音器中低聲傳出輕柔的背景音樂,那是一個管弦樂隊演奏的甲殼蟲樂隊的《挪威的森林》。那旋律一如往日地使我難以自已。這一次,比往日還要強烈地搖撼著我的身心。
為了不使頭腦脹裂,我彎下腰,雙手捂臉。很快,一位德國空中小姐走來,用英語問我是不是不大舒服。我答說:“不要緊,隻是有點暈。”
“真的不要緊?”
“不要緊的,謝謝。”我說。
她於是莞爾一笑,轉身走開。音樂變成彼利8226;喬的曲子。我仰起臉,望著北海上空陰沉沉的雲層,浮想聯翩。我想起自己在過去人生旅途中失卻的許多東西——蹉跎的歲月,死去或離去的人們,無可追回的懊悔。
機身停穩後,旅客解開安全帶,從行李架中取出皮包和上衣等物。而我,仿佛依然置身於那片草地之中,呼吸著草的芬芳,感受著風的輕柔,諦聽著鳥的鳴囀。那是1969年的秋天,我快滿20歲的時候。
Norwegian Wood
Written by Haruki Murakami
I was thrity-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. Cold November rains drenched the earth and lent everything the gloomy air of a Flemish landscape: the ground crew in rain gear, a flag atop a squat airport building, a BMW billboard. So--Germany again.
Once the plane was on the ground soft music began to flow from the ceiling speakers: a sweet orchestral cover version of the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood". The melody never failed to send a shudder through me, but this time it hit me harder than ever.
I bent forward in my seat, face in hands to keep my skull from splitting open. Before long one of the German stewardesses approached and asked in English if I were sick. "No," I said, "just dizzy."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. Thanks."
She smiled and left, and the music changed to a Billy Joel tune. I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.
The plane reached the gate. People began unlatching their seatbelts and pulling baggage from the storage bins, and all the while I was in the meadow. I could smell the grass, feel the wind on my face, hear the cries of the birds. Autumn 1969, and soon I would be twenty.
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以前在<<瘋狂英語>>裏聽過,印象很深,一直不知道是什麽作品,google了一下,原來還是很有名氣的.
內容簡介:
漢堡機場一曲憂鬱的《挪威的森林》,複蘇了主人公渡邊傷感的二十歲記憶:嫻靜靦腆、多愁善感的直子,是他動情傾心的女孩,那纏綿的病況、如水的柔情,甚至在她花蝕香銷之後,仍令他無時忘懷;神采飛揚、野性未脫的綠子,是他邂逅相遇的情人,那迷人的活力、大膽的表白,即使是他山盟已訂時,也覺得她難以抗拒。悲歡戀情、如激弦,如幽曲,掩卷猶餘音顫嫋;奇句妙語,如泉湧,如露凝,讀來真口角噙香。純而又純的青春情感,百分百的戀愛小說。