Listen to Murakami Haruki. The artistic world of Murakami Haruki

Author: J. Rubin (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: "Haruki Murakami's adventures in the inner world of memory aim to follow in the footsteps of Proust, attempting 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-fat era. He tackles fundamental questions—such as the meaning of life and death, the nature of truth, the relationship between 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 utterly sincere and never pretentious. He speaks to us today, using the language of our time, with both a keen sensitivity to the benefits and joys of living in this world and an attitude of nihilism."