"NORWEGIAN WOOD"

今日は英会話に『ノルウェイの森』を英語訳本と一緒に持って行きました。
Julien先生は日本語を勉強中なので、日本語の方をぺらぺらめくって「あっ！読める～」と大感激。

私は日本語で読んでからすぐに英語訳を読んでいるので辞書なしでも何とか読めて、
何だかすご～～く上達した感じがして気持ちがいいです。
先生にも、この読書法をお勧めしておきました。　まあ、読む順番は逆になりますが。。。

ポイントは、何度読んでも読み飽きない本。かな～～☆

On earth will there ever be an opportunity to visit Santa Fe and watch a miraculously 
beautiful sunset – as if everything was soaked in brilliant red?

And then how will there be someone there hand to hand with me 
in a tremor of joy in the midst of this overwhelming sunset??

Perhaps the original red jacket of “Norwegian forest” is expressed an innocent, almost 
burnt-in longing such as a kind of childhood longing that had always remained and unfulfilled.

I’m spending the rainy season pondering Haruki’s discursive work.

I finished reading Haruki Murakami 『ノルウェイの森』 last week and this week
I am reading "NORWEGIAN WOOD" in English which was translated by Jay Rubin.

I thought that I would read an English version after I finished reading almost all of 
Haruki’s work in Japanese for my English study.

However, I get a nice idea when I read this novel.

Nagasawa who is an attractive character in this work is watching a Spanish lesson 
on TV and says “What awful example sentences! This kind of shit is all they ever give you.”

Instead of learning such sentences as like; “I have never seen such a terrible rain!” 
“Many bridges were washed away in Barcelona.”

It is 100 times more enjoyable to learn English conversation such as;
“So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up”
Midori lifted up her face and looked at me. “You have this special way with words.”
“I can feel my heart softening when you say that,” I said smiling.

Considering my English level, I should read the English version as soon as possible
so as not to forget the Japanese conversation.

I’m just a beginner for Haruki’s works and English but I think his works’ conversations 
have a similar atmosphere to English.

He is a translator himself, so his Japanese may contain some English atmosphere.