White Christmas, Capote, and the Flight Song of Skylarks --The Poetics of "Falsification" in Haruki Murakami's Hear the Wind Sing--

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  • ホワイト・クリスマス, カポーティ, 雲雀の舞い唄 --村上春樹『風の歌を聴け』における<<虚偽>>の詩学--
  • ホワイト・クリスマス,カポーティ,雲雀の舞い唄(フライト・ソング) : 村上春樹『風の歌を聴け』における《虚偽》の詩学
  • ホワイト ・ クリスマス,カポーティ,ヒバリ ノ マイ ウタ(フライト ・ ソング) : ムラカミ ハルキ 『 カゼ ノ ウタ オ キケ 』 ニ オケル 《 キョギ 》 ノ シガク

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Haruki Murakami's debut novel, Hear the Wind Sing (1979), employs the technique of "falsification" to hide the narrator's true feelings regarding his third girlfriend's suicide. To this end, Murakami invented a misleading original title "Happy Birthday and White Christmas" ; referred to Truman Capote's short story "Shut a Final Door" as a source of the new title ; narrated the suicide of a fictional science fiction writer Derek Hartfield ; focused on an irrelevant time, August 1970, instead of April 1970 when she committed suicide ; and used an inaccurate phrase "hear the skylarks sing", instead of "hear the wind sing", which is closely related to a requiem for the dead girlfriend. The girlfriend's suicide must have been too tragic to be described by the rookie writer, who later managed to express the tragedy in Norwegian Wood (1987).

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