The Beatles' song 'Norwegian Wood' is translated as 'Norwegian Forest' (as in, the woods) in Japanese. Haruki Murakami has written a novel named after the song.
I read the Korean translation of the novel, (which was titled, of course, as the 'Norwegian Forest') long before I started listening to the Beatles. And therefore for a long, long time I was very confused about the lyrics of the song. I always had pictured the story to take place in some Norwegian lumberjack's hut rather than a London flat.
Anyway, this is Mongolia. It's not all desert.
No comments:
Post a Comment