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Yesterday
A short story by Haruki Murakami, published in The New Yorker magazine.
52 pages, ebook
First published June 9, 2014
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Haruki Murakami
605 books132k followersHaruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.
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August 3, 2022
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends ...I remained hidden away, deep within myself.”
Haruki Murakami's short story, "Yesterday" (loosely modeled on the Beatles song by the same name) echoes melancholy strains of lost love. Tanimura remembers how his idiosyncratic friend, Kitarum, asked him to date his girlfriend Erika. This is a quirky tale of love and loneliness pondered in a meditative way. Murakami creates a distinctive mood along with a satisfying ending that works perfectly. 4.5 stars
Haruki Murakami's short story, "Yesterday" (loosely modeled on the Beatles song by the same name) echoes melancholy strains of lost love. Tanimura remembers how his idiosyncratic friend, Kitarum, asked him to date his girlfriend Erika. This is a quirky tale of love and loneliness pondered in a meditative way. Murakami creates a distinctive mood along with a satisfying ending that works perfectly. 4.5 stars
February 25, 2019
Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.
Pick any damn Murakami book and he's gonna introduce you to the finest musical masterpieces that exist. He has a thing for the Beatles, we all know that & in the process of reading his books, I've unknowingly developed a taste for them as well.
The book's title is based on Beatle's famous song "Yesterday", it's a forlorn song about lost love.
So, basically...Yesterday is a story about these two guys, Kitaru and Tanimura. Honestly, I love this coming-of-age narration from Murakami, sounds easy-going and avant-garde! Kitaru is this idiosyncratic guy who asks his friend, Tanimura to date his girlfriend Erika for him.
Despite the short span of time, this short story is going to have a lasting impression on my mind. There's something about the way it's written, so simplistic and quirky.
Here are some of the excerpts from the book that I really loved-
“Is it hard on you?” she asked.
“Is what hard?”
“Suddenly being on your own after being a couple.”
“Sometimes,” I said honestly.
“But maybe going through that kind of tough, lonely experience is necessary when you’re young? Part of the process of growing up?”
“You think so?”
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.”
“Do you still dream about the moon made of ice?” I asked.
Her head snapped up and she stared at me. Very calmly, slowly, a smile spread across her face. A completely natural, open smile.
“You remember my dream?” she asked.
“For some reason, I do.”
“Even though it’s someone else’s dream?”
“Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out,” I said.
“That’s a wonderful idea,” she said.
But when I look back at myself at age twenty what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes I’d go a week without talking to anybody. That kind of life continued for a year. A long, long year. Whether this period was a cold winter that left valuable growth rings inside me, I can’t really say. At the time I felt as if every night I, too, were gazing out a porthole at a moon made of ice. A transparent, eight-inch-thick, frozen moon. But I watched that moon alone, unable to share its cold beauty with anyone.
It's a beautiful story compiling all the emotions of love, friendship, and loneliness. But, it not a YA book, trust me!
The timelines he has presented here, makes you feel like you're yourself growing old with the character and makes me wonder how you have no control on time or over life.
Also, this is the first time he has given a proper ending to his story and I was like-Am I dreaming or is it really happening? How come a Murakami book has a defined ending?
I think he is a master in terms of writing short stories.
I'm so glad I came across this story and read it, recommended to all the Murakamists!!
Pick any damn Murakami book and he's gonna introduce you to the finest musical masterpieces that exist. He has a thing for the Beatles, we all know that & in the process of reading his books, I've unknowingly developed a taste for them as well.
The book's title is based on Beatle's famous song "Yesterday", it's a forlorn song about lost love.
So, basically...Yesterday is a story about these two guys, Kitaru and Tanimura. Honestly, I love this coming-of-age narration from Murakami, sounds easy-going and avant-garde! Kitaru is this idiosyncratic guy who asks his friend, Tanimura to date his girlfriend Erika for him.
Despite the short span of time, this short story is going to have a lasting impression on my mind. There's something about the way it's written, so simplistic and quirky.
Here are some of the excerpts from the book that I really loved-
“Is it hard on you?” she asked.
“Is what hard?”
“Suddenly being on your own after being a couple.”
“Sometimes,” I said honestly.
“But maybe going through that kind of tough, lonely experience is necessary when you’re young? Part of the process of growing up?”
“You think so?”
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.”
“Do you still dream about the moon made of ice?” I asked.
Her head snapped up and she stared at me. Very calmly, slowly, a smile spread across her face. A completely natural, open smile.
“You remember my dream?” she asked.
“For some reason, I do.”
“Even though it’s someone else’s dream?”
“Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out,” I said.
“That’s a wonderful idea,” she said.
But when I look back at myself at age twenty what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes I’d go a week without talking to anybody. That kind of life continued for a year. A long, long year. Whether this period was a cold winter that left valuable growth rings inside me, I can’t really say. At the time I felt as if every night I, too, were gazing out a porthole at a moon made of ice. A transparent, eight-inch-thick, frozen moon. But I watched that moon alone, unable to share its cold beauty with anyone.
It's a beautiful story compiling all the emotions of love, friendship, and loneliness. But, it not a YA book, trust me!
The timelines he has presented here, makes you feel like you're yourself growing old with the character and makes me wonder how you have no control on time or over life.
Also, this is the first time he has given a proper ending to his story and I was like-Am I dreaming or is it really happening? How come a Murakami book has a defined ending?
I think he is a master in terms of writing short stories.
I'm so glad I came across this story and read it, recommended to all the Murakamists!!
August 26, 2018
I read the first page in order to decide if I should read this book
But before deciding, I finished the book
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Yesterday
Is two days before tomorrow,
The day after two days ago.
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But before deciding, I finished the book
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Yesterday
Is two days before tomorrow,
The day after two days ago.
image:
July 27, 2017
"تک تک آدم های بد شبیه آدم بدا نیستن و همه ی آدمای خوب هم دقیقا شکل آدم خوبا نیستن"
موراکامی داستان های ساده و معمولی رو عااالی توصیف میکنه....همش میخوای بدونی بعدش قراره چه اتفاقی بیوفته
موراکامی داستان های ساده و معمولی رو عااالی توصیف میکنه....همش میخوای بدونی بعدش قراره چه اتفاقی بیوفته
November 19, 2019
In "Yesterday", Haruki Murakami deals with the familiar themes of lost love and loneliness, and the power of music (applies to any form of art though).
Also, the story has a well-defined ending - a first by the author?
"the language we speak constitutes who we are as people."
"If you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s not easy to look for it."
"It’s your life. You should do what you want and forget about what other people think."
"Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out."
"As time passes, memory, inevitably, reconstitutes itself."
"Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt."
Also, the story has a well-defined ending - a first by the author?
"the language we speak constitutes who we are as people."
"If you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s not easy to look for it."
"It’s your life. You should do what you want and forget about what other people think."
"Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out."
"As time passes, memory, inevitably, reconstitutes itself."
"Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt."
February 24, 2024
پنج ستاره بهش میدم.
اصلا نفهمیدم که داستان چطور گذشت و چطور خوندمش.
موراکامی همیشه اینکار رو باهام میکنه.
ولی فکر کنم اگر در یک روز معمولی میخوندم، بهش چهار ستاره میدادم.
این داستان رو یکی که دوسش دارم برام فرستاد. اونم روزی که حالم خیلی بده و منم پشت کنکورم
بهش گفتم که بیا رابطمهمون رو جدی ترش کنیم. هنوز جوابم رو نداده و میترسم....
اصلا نفهمیدم که داستان چطور گذشت و چطور خوندمش.
موراکامی همیشه اینکار رو باهام میکنه.
ولی فکر کنم اگر در یک روز معمولی میخوندم، بهش چهار ستاره میدادم.
این داستان رو یکی که دوسش دارم برام فرستاد. اونم روزی که حالم خیلی بده و منم پشت کنکورم
بهش گفتم که بیا رابطمهمون رو جدی ترش کنیم. هنوز جوابم رو نداده و میترسم....
June 27, 2023
《اگر به من بود دوست داشتم کل زندگیام را در یک جعبه بچپانم و بعد دور بیندازمش؛ جعبهی زندگیام را پرت کنم وسط شعلههای آتش و بایستم به تماشای سوختن و دود شدنش》
این بار موراکامی دنیاشو در یک داستان کوتاهِ 40 صفحهای بنا کرده. با تمام ظرافتها و عناصر همیشگی قلمش که آدمو به وجد میاره، چندان کم از رمانهاش نداشت🥹
این بار موراکامی دنیاشو در یک داستان کوتاهِ 40 صفحهای بنا کرده. با تمام ظرافتها و عناصر همیشگی قلمش که آدمو به وجد میاره، چندان کم از رمانهاش نداشت🥹
February 19, 2016
موسيقي اين قدرت را دارد كه به خاطرات جان ببخشد، گاهي آنقدر قوي است كه آزارت مي دهد...
September 21, 2023
A boy has a strange idea, his friend reluctantly accepts. There is an air of innocence and a huge sentiment of waste.
It depends on your mood and on your way of seeing life...
It depends on your mood and on your way of seeing life...
January 12, 2022
تانیمورا پسر جوانیست که در کالج درس میخواند و بر حسب اتفاق با پسری به نام کیتورا آشنا میشود. کیتورا دو سال است که پشت کنکور مانده و درس میخواند. روزی این دو دوست باهم در مورد زندگی و روابطشان با دیگران صحبت میکنند تا اینکه کیتورا پیشنهاد عجیبی به تانیمورا میدهد...
داستان فوقالعاده ساده، راحتخوان و بدون پیچیدگی اما بسیار جذاب. از اون دسته داستانهاست که میخوای بخونی و ادامه بدی که ببینی جریان چی میشه. خیلی ازش خوشم اومد، با اینکه کوتاه بود اما قشنگ بود.
داستان فوقالعاده ساده، راحتخوان و بدون پیچیدگی اما بسیار جذاب. از اون دسته داستانهاست که میخوای بخونی و ادامه بدی که ببینی جریان چی میشه. خیلی ازش خوشم اومد، با اینکه کوتاه بود اما قشنگ بود.
March 15, 2015
"It feels as though these things happened just yesterday. Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt."
June 29, 2016
اميدوارم شناختي كه تا اين جا از هاروكي موراكامي به دست آورده ام چندان دور از واقعيت نباشد، او به نظرم استاد توصيفهاي ساده اما جذاب درمورد موضوعات بسيار ساده و معمولي زندگي است...... تا آخر داستان هيچ اتفاق خاصي نمي افتد.... در داستان ديروز، صحبت از شخصيت متفاوتي است كه شايد ما بارها افرادي مانند او را در زندگي مان ديده باشيم...... آدمي متفاوت با سليقه و طرز فكر و منشي آن قدر متفاوت از بقيه كه به راحتي به چشم ميايد و شايد بعضي وقتها توي چشم بزند.......... ترجمه ي كتاب، روان و خوب بود...... با اين كه تا آخر داستان هم برخلاف انتظارم اتفاق خاص و فوق العاده اي نيفتاد اما خواندنش لذتي داشت كه شايد آدم وقتي كتابهاي هاروكي را مي خواند تازه با اين لذت آشنا مي شود.... يعني لذت بردن از داستاني كه هيچ نقطه اوج واقعي اي ندارد.... و تو خودت هم نمي داني از چه چيز داستان خوشت آمده و راضي شده اي......
January 20, 2016
ادامه دادم: " از من بپرسی می گم کیتارو توی زندگی دنبال یه چیزیه؛ اما به سبک خودش و با سرعت خودش، و فکر کنم هنوزم دقیقاً نمی دونه دنبال چی هست. برای همین پیشرفتی توی زندگیش دیده نمی شه. اگه ندونی دنبال چی هستی، پیدا کردنش غیرممکنه. "
December 8, 2020
Amazed how can Murakami gets us to feel these much feelings from just very simple short stories
December 28, 2023
یه داستان کوتاه، ساده اما دلچسب و گیرا.
من واقعا عاشق نوشته های موراکامیم. شخصیت هاش همیشه خیلی واقعین، جوری که وقتی داستانیازش میخونم واقعا حس میکنم شخصیت های داستان رو مدتی طولانیه میشناسم و احساسات و افکارشون رو درک میکنم. قسمت مورد علاقه دیگه ام هم از نوشته هاش حضور همیشگی موسیقی، خاطرات قدیمی،کافه های گرم و دنج و صحبت های عمیق بین دوتا شخصیت داستانه.
من واقعا عاشق نوشته های موراکامیم. شخصیت هاش همیشه خیلی واقعین، جوری که وقتی داستانیازش میخونم واقعا حس میکنم شخصیت های داستان رو مدتی طولانیه میشناسم و احساسات و افکارشون رو درک میکنم. قسمت مورد علاقه دیگه ام هم از نوشته هاش حضور همیشگی موسیقی، خاطرات قدیمی،کافه های گرم و دنج و صحبت های عمیق بین دوتا شخصیت داستانه.
November 24, 2014
I’m new to Murakami but I’ve learned two things.
1) Dreams always mean something... Probably. Well, maybe not. But sort of. Kinda.
2) A piece of music can define a person’s life or a relationship between people. And this usually goes beyond the ‘hey, they’re playing our song!’ or the idea of a ‘soundtrack for a generation.’ With this story, that piece of music is ‘Yesterday’ by The Beatles.
The story follows two young men, one is ‘too normal’ and the other is a bit of an eccentric. The eccentric has made it his goal to learn the Kansai dialect, despite the fact that he’s not from the region and most people find his voice rather grating. He has also made up fake lyrics to ‘Yesterday’ that go a little something like, ‘Yesterday… is two days before tomorrow!’ And so on. The eccentric is stuck in arrested development and he asks his friend to go out with his girlfriend so that she can be happy and so that he can rest easy knowing she’s with a good guy.
There’s not a whole lot to say about this one. It’s a story about love, loneliness, and lost friendship. It’s short but sweet. The characters are likable, the dialogue really flows, and it comes to a satisfying end. I’m not sure that I’m going to remember ‘Yesterday’ for very long, but I enjoyed it and I’m glad I read it.
1) Dreams always mean something... Probably. Well, maybe not. But sort of. Kinda.
2) A piece of music can define a person’s life or a relationship between people. And this usually goes beyond the ‘hey, they’re playing our song!’ or the idea of a ‘soundtrack for a generation.’ With this story, that piece of music is ‘Yesterday’ by The Beatles.
The story follows two young men, one is ‘too normal’ and the other is a bit of an eccentric. The eccentric has made it his goal to learn the Kansai dialect, despite the fact that he’s not from the region and most people find his voice rather grating. He has also made up fake lyrics to ‘Yesterday’ that go a little something like, ‘Yesterday… is two days before tomorrow!’ And so on. The eccentric is stuck in arrested development and he asks his friend to go out with his girlfriend so that she can be happy and so that he can rest easy knowing she’s with a good guy.
There’s not a whole lot to say about this one. It’s a story about love, loneliness, and lost friendship. It’s short but sweet. The characters are likable, the dialogue really flows, and it comes to a satisfying end. I’m not sure that I’m going to remember ‘Yesterday’ for very long, but I enjoyed it and I’m glad I read it.
April 29, 2015
A kind of easy-going and fun story about two friends in Japan. One is rather eccentric and asks his friend to date his girlfriend for him.
October 21, 2016
دیروز
ترجمه: مونا حسینی
انتشارات بوتیمار
موسیقی این قدرت را دارد که به خاطرات جان ببخشد،گاهی آن قدر قوی است که آزارت می دهد.
ترجمه: مونا حسینی
انتشارات بوتیمار
موسیقی این قدرت را دارد که به خاطرات جان ببخشد،گاهی آن قدر قوی است که آزارت می دهد.
February 17, 2018
راوی از همان ابتدای داستان میگوید که دیروز چیزی نیست که فقط مربوط به گذشته باشد:
Yesterday
Is two days before tomorrow,
The day after two days ago.
دیروز میتواند مدام تکرار شود و تکرار هم میشود. در واقع زمانی که راوی از «دیروز» حرف میزند منظورش فقط نسخهی کیتارو از آهنگ بیتلها نیست. در ابتدای داستان راوی میگوید:
و در انتهای آن، در مهمترین جملههای داستان از نظر من، میگوید:
در واقع این فقط نسخهی کیتارو از آهنگ دیروز نیست که برای راوی مبهم است، بلکه دیروز هم مبهم است و با این حال با تمامی ابهامهایی داشته و با تمامی پیچیدگیهایش برای راوی اهمیت دارد و باید به آن بپردازد تا خودش را بهتر بشناسد.
اهمیت داستان دیروز در خود این روایت سی صفحهای نیست. در چیزی است که بعد از آن به سراغتان میآید. کافی است این داستان را خوانده باشید و بعد زمانی تنها شوید و آن موقع است که احساس میکنید، با همهی وجود، که دارید آب شدن ماه یخی زندگیتان را میبینید و فقط میگویید که کاش یک نفر بود تا این منظره را با او سهیم میشدم.
شاید در نوبت اولی که داستان را میخواندم به نظرم سه ستاره هم برایش زیاد بود، اما اکنون و بعد از گذشت چند سال از تجربهی اولین بار خواندنش، به این داستان چهار ستاره میدهم .
Yesterday
Is two days before tomorrow,
The day after two days ago.
دیروز میتواند مدام تکرار شود و تکرار هم میشود. در واقع زمانی که راوی از «دیروز» حرف میزند منظورش فقط نسخهی کیتارو از آهنگ بیتلها نیست. در ابتدای داستان راوی میگوید:
میتوانستم جدیاش نگیرم، اما همزمان نوعی معنای پنهان و مهم در آن میدیدم
و در انتهای آن، در مهمترین جملههای داستان از نظر من، میگوید:
در واقع این فقط نسخهی کیتارو از آهنگ دیروز نیست که برای راوی مبهم است، بلکه دیروز هم مبهم است و با این حال با تمامی ابهامهایی داشته و با تمامی پیچیدگیهایش برای راوی اهمیت دارد و باید به آن بپردازد تا خودش را بهتر بشناسد.
اهمیت داستان دیروز در خود این روایت سی صفحهای نیست. در چیزی است که بعد از آن به سراغتان میآید. کافی است این داستان را خوانده باشید و بعد زمانی تنها شوید و آن موقع است که احساس میکنید، با همهی وجود، که دارید آب شدن ماه یخی زندگیتان را میبینید و فقط میگویید که کاش یک نفر بود تا این منظره را با او سهیم میشدم.
شاید در نوبت اولی که داستان را میخواندم به نظرم سه ستاره هم برایش زیاد بود، اما اکنون و بعد از گذشت چند سال از تجربهی اولین بار خواندنش، به این داستان چهار ستاره میدهم .
September 21, 2016
آن زمان من هر شب از پنجره ی کشتی به ماه یخ زده خیره میشدم، ماه شفاف، به ضخامت هشت اینچ. ولی من آن ماه را تنها تماشا می کردم و قادر به تقسیم کردن زیبایی آن با کس دیگری نبودم.
دیروز
دو روز قبل از فرداست
و یک روز بعد از دو روز قبل است...
کتاب های موراکامی بنظرم نیاز به تعریف و تمجید ندارن، هرکسی باید اون ها رو تو کتابخونه اش داشته باشه...
دیروز
دو روز قبل از فرداست
و یک روز بعد از دو روز قبل است...
کتاب های موراکامی بنظرم نیاز به تعریف و تمجید ندارن، هرکسی باید اون ها رو تو کتابخونه اش داشته باشه...
August 28, 2018
این هفته را هفته ی موراکامی نام گذاشته ام وجنگل نروژی میخوانم. و داستان های کوتاه. عشق سمسا را خواندم که داستانی بود با سیری برعکس مسخ کافکا که من را اصلا با تمام نمادهای نیهلستی و تمثیل ها ونمادگرایی هایش جذب نکرد.
امروز داستان کوتاه دیروز را خواندم که تمام و عینا ایده ی اولیه ی رمان بلند – ساکوروتازاکامی و سال های زیارتش بود. نمی دانم کدام زودتر منشتر شده.
اما این داستان کوتاه با گوش دادن به موسیقی راوی را به بیست سالگی- سن همیشگی راوی های رمان های موراکامی که این همیشه گی بودن و در کالج بودن و رابطه ی دختر و پسر و مثلث عشقی اش روی اعصاب می رود گاهی- راوی پرت می شود به آن دوران دانگشاه و دوستی که داشته و عجیب غریب بوده ودوست هم- مثل تمام رمان های دیگر او- به یکباره غیب می شود. و...
به نظرم به عنوان داستان کوتاه خوب بود و شایسته ی تحسین اگر 600 صفحه ی ساکوراتازاکی و سال های زیارتش را نمی خواندم. هرچقدر بیشتر از مورارکامی می خوانم بیشتر احساس می کنم برای تینیجرها مینویسد با سوریال و جادویی و روان کاوی های دقیق- که تکرار مکررات ش آزاردهنده است.-
امروز داستان کوتاه دیروز را خواندم که تمام و عینا ایده ی اولیه ی رمان بلند – ساکوروتازاکامی و سال های زیارتش بود. نمی دانم کدام زودتر منشتر شده.
اما این داستان کوتاه با گوش دادن به موسیقی راوی را به بیست سالگی- سن همیشگی راوی های رمان های موراکامی که این همیشه گی بودن و در کالج بودن و رابطه ی دختر و پسر و مثلث عشقی اش روی اعصاب می رود گاهی- راوی پرت می شود به آن دوران دانگشاه و دوستی که داشته و عجیب غریب بوده ودوست هم- مثل تمام رمان های دیگر او- به یکباره غیب می شود. و...
به نظرم به عنوان داستان کوتاه خوب بود و شایسته ی تحسین اگر 600 صفحه ی ساکوراتازاکی و سال های زیارتش را نمی خواندم. هرچقدر بیشتر از مورارکامی می خوانم بیشتر احساس می کنم برای تینیجرها مینویسد با سوریال و جادویی و روان کاوی های دقیق- که تکرار مکررات ش آزاردهنده است.-
December 28, 2015
In my eyes, Murakami is one of the great masters of short stories. "Yesterday" is yet further proof of his mastery. If you want to read this short story, you should check out the New Yorker website because that's where I found this wonderful piece of writing.
Murakami makes me wish I knew Japanese.
Link to "Yesterday" [via New Yorker]: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/feat...
Murakami makes me wish I knew Japanese.
Link to "Yesterday" [via New Yorker]: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/feat...
February 9, 2017
فکر کنم اولین کار از موریکامیه که خوندم. برام به هیچ وجه جذابیتی نداشت . از نویسنده ای تا این حدمعروف انتظار بیشتری داشتم.
کاملا حوصله سر بر و یه نواخت بود.
کاملا حوصله سر بر و یه نواخت بود.
April 6, 2021
The story has a melancholic theme yet it's so simple and beautiful. The kind of read that gives you the warm and nostalgic feeling. Looking forward to read more of Murakami.
Some Quotes:
★ "Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt"
★ "That’s what we all do, endlessly take the long way around."
★ “But maybe going through that kind of tough, lonely experience is necessary when you’re young? Part of the process of growing up?”
“You think so?”
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.”
Some Quotes:
★ "Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt"
★ "That’s what we all do, endlessly take the long way around."
★ “But maybe going through that kind of tough, lonely experience is necessary when you’re young? Part of the process of growing up?”
“You think so?”
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.”
July 4, 2017
"خواب و رویاها چیزایی هستن که میتونی قرض بدی و قرض بگیرشون"
چکیده این داستان کوتاهِ عالی میتونه این یه جمله باشه.
تو تنهایی خودمون زندگی میکنیم اما تنهایی هامون رو با هم شریک میشیم و شکل تنهایی همدیگه رو عوض میکنیم.
چکیده این داستان کوتاهِ عالی میتونه این یه جمله باشه.
تو تنهایی خودمون زندگی میکنیم اما تنهایی هامون رو با هم شریک میشیم و شکل تنهایی همدیگه رو عوض میکنیم.
October 12, 2024
La música evoca recuerdos, nos ata a personas del pasado, nos mantiene enredados y cercanos pese al ineludible paso del tiempo.
En este caso es yesterday, el tema de los beatles, el que conduce a nuestro protagonista a rememorar una amistad efímera de sus veintes. Mediante el relato descubrimos a un sujeto peculiar, una novia bellísima, una propuesta insólita, una cita y un sueño, pero nos adentramos, más que nada, en un retrato simple pero evocador sobre la juventud, la soledad y el anhelo.
La virtud de Murakami es lo tangible que se sienten sus personajes pese a su brevedad y el entendimiento que persiguen (y perseguimos) sobre malestares cotidianos.
En este caso es yesterday, el tema de los beatles, el que conduce a nuestro protagonista a rememorar una amistad efímera de sus veintes. Mediante el relato descubrimos a un sujeto peculiar, una novia bellísima, una propuesta insólita, una cita y un sueño, pero nos adentramos, más que nada, en un retrato simple pero evocador sobre la juventud, la soledad y el anhelo.
La virtud de Murakami es lo tangible que se sienten sus personajes pese a su brevedad y el entendimiento que persiguen (y perseguimos) sobre malestares cotidianos.
March 9, 2022
This is my first Murakami, and I'm not mad about it. This was a very short story, and I would have probably wanted more. But for what it was, it was good.
Murakami has such a vivid way of writing, with dialogues and descriptions able to form in your mind so easily. That's in fact a talent, for my creativity is limited to the point where I can't even imagine fake scenarios with myself.
all in all: this was good but I could have had more.
Murakami has such a vivid way of writing, with dialogues and descriptions able to form in your mind so easily. That's in fact a talent, for my creativity is limited to the point where I can't even imagine fake scenarios with myself.
all in all: this was good but I could have had more.
June 13, 2014
Fantastic loved every bit of it! So Murakami! Short, but sweet!
June 19, 2019
دیروز دو روز قبل از فرداست، دیروز روز بعداز دو روز پیش است
آدما نیاز دارن یه دوره هایی، تنهایی رو تو زندگیشون تجربه کنن. اما بهتر میشه اگه به اینم فکر کنن که قراره یه روزی این دوره ها تموم بشن
آدما نیاز دارن یه دوره هایی، تنهایی رو تو زندگیشون تجربه کنن. اما بهتر میشه اگه به اینم فکر کنن که قراره یه روزی این دوره ها تموم بشن
August 22, 2014
Tanimura is looking back on his youth from middle age. He remembers his odd friend Kitaru who was obsessed with the Kansai dialect of Japan despite being born in Tokyo and how he put Kansai lyrics to The Beatles’ Yesterday:
Yesterday
Is two days before tomorrow,
The day after two days ago.
Then Kitaru introduces his girlfriend Erika and an unconventional relationship begins.
Yesterday feels like someone writing a parody of Haruki Murakami. I’ve read ten books by Murakami so know what his style is like and a lot of familiar themes and images from those books crop up in this short story. Here’s the checklist: an older man looking wistfully back at his youthful past; the same man talking to his former girl about what could have been; a Beatles reference; a Woody Allen film reference; the Moon as an important symbol; lengthy descriptions of food and meal scenes; a female character with a secret.
Like all Murakami, Yesterday is well written and the scenes and dialogue flow easily into one another. The line “It feels as though these things happened just yesterday” was a bit on the nose, though there’s a very sweet line that goes: “Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out.”, which sounds, appropriately, like a Paul McCartney lyric.
That said, the story leaves little impression on the reader and its themes of loss, longing, and identity are better explored in Murakami’s novels. Yesterday is like an artist doing a cover version of one of his own songs.
You can read the whole thing for free online on The New Yorker’s site here.
Yesterday
Is two days before tomorrow,
The day after two days ago.
Then Kitaru introduces his girlfriend Erika and an unconventional relationship begins.
Yesterday feels like someone writing a parody of Haruki Murakami. I’ve read ten books by Murakami so know what his style is like and a lot of familiar themes and images from those books crop up in this short story. Here’s the checklist: an older man looking wistfully back at his youthful past; the same man talking to his former girl about what could have been; a Beatles reference; a Woody Allen film reference; the Moon as an important symbol; lengthy descriptions of food and meal scenes; a female character with a secret.
Like all Murakami, Yesterday is well written and the scenes and dialogue flow easily into one another. The line “It feels as though these things happened just yesterday” was a bit on the nose, though there’s a very sweet line that goes: “Dreams are the kind of things you can borrow and lend out.”, which sounds, appropriately, like a Paul McCartney lyric.
That said, the story leaves little impression on the reader and its themes of loss, longing, and identity are better explored in Murakami’s novels. Yesterday is like an artist doing a cover version of one of his own songs.
You can read the whole thing for free online on The New Yorker’s site here.
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