Listen to Haruki Murakami: The Artistic World of Haruki Murakami

Author: Jay Rubin (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Haruki Murakami's adventure in the inner world of memory is an attempt to follow in the footsteps of Marcel 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 truth, the relationship between the perception of time and memory, and the material world, the search for identity and self-acceptance, and the meaning of love—but in an easily digestible form. It is not dull, verbose, or oppressive, yet entirely sincere and never pretentious. He speaks to us today, using the language of our time, with a keen sensitivity to the full benefits and joys of living in the world, yet maintaining a nihilistic attitude. The author is deeply fond of Murakami's works and, in this book, will take readers on a journey to share the excitement of reading and translating Murakami's works, as well as the boundless wonders of his artistic world.