Books and Arts; Book Review; New fiction from Japan;
文艺；书评；来自日本的新小说；
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side;
嗨，去野外散个步吧；
A black cat, two moons and a host of nocturnal little people populate Haruki Murakami's new novel. But has he become more conventional?
在村上春树的新书里，他将一只黑猫、两轮月亮以及一群夜晚小小人拟人化。但他是否变得更保守点了呢？
Haruki Murakami filches from George Orwell's “Nineteen Eighty-Four” for the title of his new novel, “1Q84”, making a play on kyu, the Japanese word for nine, by transposing the letter “Q” for the number “9”. Significantly, the action also takes place over the last nine months of 1984. But it would be a mistake to conclude from this that Japan's magical postmodernist has spent nearly 1,000 pages writing about a dystopian world where couples make love in an ash glade, hardly daring to speak because of the all-listening microphones in the trees. Mr Murakami's main influence here is not so much Orwell as Philip Pullman; his “1Q84” less a stairway to another world than a heave-ho into a whole new universe.
村上春树的新书《1Q84》书名的灵感来自于对乔治·奥威尔（ George Orwell）《1984》一书的借鉴（他把“9”改成了“Q"，而在日语里，“9”的发音与Q谐音）。此外，值得注意的是，书里故事发生的时间也是1984年最后的9个月。因此，如果错误地认为这位日本后现代魔幻大师花了近1000页的笔墨，只为描写一个情侣在野外做爱，并由于树上装有所有人都能听到的窃听器而不敢发出丝毫声音的反乌托邦世界，这就错了。但是村上春树在这里的主要影响并不像奥威尔或是菲利普·普尔曼（Philip Pullman）一样，他的《1Q84》一书与其说是通往另一个世界的阶梯，还不如说是完全逃向一个全新的世界。

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