In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, Haruki Murakami plays with the quantum idea of the Many Worlds theory, creating two universes that exist in a state of parallelism – one consisting of the main character’s objective/subjective reality, the other being a pre-objective reality that resides within the character’s inaccessible subconscious mind. These universes are linked within the purely objective, surreal world of the novel by a series of indexical signs and symbols that point the reader back and forth between the worlds, indicating that they are linked by certain shared subjectivities. What follows here is an exploration of how Murakami’s novel works from a semiotic point of view.

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前客观现实与世界末日

在冷酷仙境和世界尽头, 村上春树玩弄多世界理论的量子思想，创造了两个平行存在的宇宙——一个由主角的客观/主观现实组成，另一个是存在于角色无法进入的前客观现实潜意识。这些宇宙在小说的纯粹客观的、超现实的世界中通过一系列指示性符号和符号联系在一起，这些符号和符号将读者在世界之间来回引导，表明它们是由某些共同的主观性联系在一起的。下面将从符号学的角度探讨村上春树的小说是如何运作的。