Here is the translation of the given content into English: "Haruki Murakami and Post-Nihilistic Era"

Author: Cen Langtian
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Every generation of thinkers inevitably encounters nihilism at some point in their lives, sometimes multiple times, leading to confusion. However, nihilism is quickly framed as an ideology, seemingly as an antagonist, and then our heroes or sages teach various methods to overcome and transcend it. Soon enough, and perhaps too quickly, we can stand up again and start anew. Is this too easy? Could it be that we actually mask the problem with the power of reason and will? In the texts of Murakami Haruki, Nietzsche, Camus, Calvino, Thoreau, and others, let us reengage in a dialogue with nihilism, and once again, in the life situations of wanderers and shadows, give nihilism a fierce and profound kiss. Because we strive to live, earnestly, willing to be ordinary people.
Every generation of thinkers inevitably encounters nihilism at some point in their lives, sometimes multiple times, leading to confusion. However, nihilism is quickly framed as an ideology, seemingly as an antagonist, and then our heroes or sages teach various methods to overcome and transcend it. Soon enough, and perhaps too quickly, we can stand up again and start anew. Is this too easy? Could it be that we actually mask the problem with the power of reason and will? In the texts of Murakami Haruki, Nietzsche, Camus, Calvino, Thoreau, and others, let us reengage in a dialogue with nihilism, and once again, in the life situations of wanderers and shadows, give nihilism a fierce and profound kiss. Because we strive to live, earnestly, willing to be ordinary people.
"Why must everyone insist on being so lonely?" Murakami Haruki's cry strikes the hearts of countless lonely souls in modern urban settings. His popularity is no coincidence. But what he writes about is not ordinary loneliness—not the kind where, lacking company at night, one seeks solace in a bar, choosing someone to cling to for relief. Murakami's loneliness is not the absence of (, refers to lively and bustling atmosphere), not the opposite of the crowd. That loneliness is a void, an emptiness that cannot be filled, because even if it is temporarily stuffed, it quickly returns to the starting point, or even becomes more empty. That loneliness is a way of being, a state of realizing that one no longer has relationships with the people and things around them. A lonely person might say: "I am lonely, therefore I exist. I feel this kind of loneliness, so this is the kind of existence I have."