Listen to Haruki Murakami (The Art World of Haruki Murakami)

Author: Jay Rubin (USA), translated by Feng Tao
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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, aiming to capture the flow of time. However, there is a crucial difference: Murakami is not at all 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 not dull,, or oppressive, yet entirely sincere and never pretentious. He speaks to us 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.