村上春树的《1Q84》与奥威尔的《1984》

《1Q84》与《1984》
从某种意义上说，《1Q84》是村上向奥威尔名作《1984》致敬的一本书！

《1Q84》和《1984》有着不言而喻的联系，在日本，“9”和“Q”发音相似，书中也有很多地方提及《一九八四》的内容。事实上，与《1984》一样，《1Q84》也是在描述1984年发生的事情，奥威尔是在1948年时写1984年，村上春树的《1Q84》则是在20多年后写当年追溯过去。主人公为区分1984年某一时点后的新世界，而将新世界后的年代订为1Q84年。Q是question mark的Q。

《1Q84》中有“小小人”（Little People），《一九八四》中有“老大哥”（Big Brother）这个有名的角色。明眼人一看就明白了吧！

“不管喜欢还是不喜欢，目前我已经置身于这‘1Q84年’。我熟悉的那个1984 年已经无影无踪，今年是1Q84年。空气变了，风景变了。我必须尽快适应这个带着问号的世界。像被放进陌生森林中的动物一样，为了生存下去，得尽快了解并 顺应这里的规则。”村上春树在接受日本《读卖新闻》时如是说。

关于《1984》
Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written 1984) is a 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell about a degenerated workers' state. The novel depicts an oligarchical, collectivist society where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. The individual is always subordinated to the masses, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue, in Newspeak), protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meagre existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother, eventually leading to his arrest, torture, and conversion.

《一九八四》（英文：Nineteen Eighty-Four）是英国作家乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）创作的一部政治讽刺小说，小说创作于1948年，书名来自作者将48倒置过来为84。这本作品初版于1949年，讲述一个令人感到窒息和恐怖的，以追逐权力为最终目标的假想的未来极权主义社会，通过对这个社会中一个普通人温斯顿·史密斯的生活，投射出了现实生活中极权主义的本质。它与1932年英国赫胥黎著作的《美丽新世界》，以及俄国尤金·扎米亚金的《我们》并称反乌托邦的三部代表作，通常也被认为是政治小说文学的代表作。

关于《1Q84》
1Q84 (One Q Eighty-Four or ichi-kew-hachi-yon) is a 2009 novel by Haruki Murakami, the first three volumes of which have been published in Japan. The novel quickly became a sensation, with its first printing selling out the day it was released, and reaching sales of one million within a month.
The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984. The letter Q and the Japanese number 9 (typically romanized as "kyū," but as "kew" on the book's Japanese cover, shown at right) are homophones, which are often used in Japanese wordplay. This is a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
One review described 1Q84 as a "complex and surreal narrative" which "shifts back and forth between tales of two characters, a man and a woman, who are searching for each other." It tackles themes of murder, history, cult religion, violence, family ties and love.