重温Dance Dance Dance的精彩，再现舞蹈之美

Last year, at the end of the year, I bought a set of English version of Haruki Murakamis works, and the designer was John Gall, not Noma Bar who created the cover of this article. The reason was that I especially liked the circular map he constructed using the cover of the work (the completion was very high), but this project had ended long ago, so I had to buy other versions of the books after 1Q84 to make up the set.

This is what the completed map looks like:

Welcome to Murakami Land!

After that, I also intended to reread Murakamis novels, so I started reading the English version from the beginning in January and walked through the "Four Books of Adolescence".

When I met Haruki Murakami for the first time more than a decade ago, I read "Dance Dance Dance" first and then read back to "Norwegian Wood". Strangely, looking back now after reading in order, it did not cause any difficulties in understanding the overall character development of "me". "I" walked on the road of life full of lost at each stage clearly.

Rereading "Dance Dance Dance", like rereading other novels, brings back the moving classic scenes, fills in the missing parts of memory, and has feelings of change in understanding due to the changing times.

The familiar opening brought me back to that familiar Japan in the 1980s, or what can be called the "highly developed capitalist society". "I" lost his lover and friend "Rat" one after another, got married and divorced, and has been doing a writing job called "cultural snow removal". Because he never forgets about the "promised place" Dolphin Hotel where he stayed before, he returned to Sapporo, but the 26-story Hotel Dauphi stands there instead (in the original Japanese version the hotel was called the Dolphin Hotel), and the world has changed during the few years when "I" was too busy being lost in his own affairs, "culture snow removal".

A new adventure began. "I" encountered various people: the beautiful but nervous front desk girl, a thirteen-year-old girl who listens to songs and drinks alone, and Sheep Man - living at the end of the dark corridor on the "fifteenth floor and a half", waiting for "me" to meet him. He said the Dolphin Hotel was always the place set up for me, and Sheep Man will always connect him with various things in the world. Faced with confusion, "I" had only one thing to do, which was to dance (I will not repeat the excerpt here).

In the English version, Sheep Man speaks without spaces, which is a little different from the usual reading of Robin Hobb. When I reread this part, I quickly thought of a light piano melody, but then jumped to the chorus of the song.

Later, I listened to the