Listen to Murakami Haruki - The Art World of Murakami Haruki

Author: Jay Rubin (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The purpose of Murakami Haruki's adventure in the inner world of memory is to follow in the footsteps of Proust, striving to capture the flow of time. However, there is a crucial difference: Murakami is anything but dull. You can easily read the entire book. It offers a refreshing, low-calorie taste of Proustian pleasure for our highly commercialized, low-cholesterol era. He deals with fundamental questions—such as the meaning of life and death, the nature of reality, the relationship between the perception of time, memory, and the material world, the search for identity and selfhood, and the meaning of love—but in an easily digestible form. It is neither dull, nor verbose, nor oppressive, yet entirely sincere and never pretentious. He speaks to us of today, using the language of our time, and approaches the full benefits and joys of being alive with both keen sensitivity and a nihilistic attitude.