"The best way to think about reality," the narrator of "the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" declares, is "to get as far away from it as possible."

“对现实的思考，”《上发条鸟记事》中的主人公曾声称“最好的方法是尽可能的远离现实”。

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But few novels can have been as hard to rework as "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", Haruki Murakami's surreal and unwieldy 600-page exploration of fear.

没有几本小说能像村上春树的《奇鸟行状录》——洋洋洒洒六百多页对恐惧的超现实主义且难以处理的探索——一样难以被改编。

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The three books in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle are named after a Rossini overture, a piano piece by Schumann and a character in Mozart’s Magic Flute respectively.

《发条鸟纪年》中的三本书分别是罗西尼序曲，舒曼的一只钢琴曲以及莫扎特《魔笛》中的一个人物。

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"So many sick things have happened, " says Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's leading novelists (A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle).

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