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Haruki Murakami opens up about translating America's literary giants
2008-05-27 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}Acclaimed author Haruki Murakami took time out from writing his first full-length novel since 2002's "Kafka On The Shore" to talk exclusively to the Mainichi.Murakami spoke on a broad spectrum of topics ranging from recent Japanese translation trends -- including his own work on contemporary classics -- to awareness in the post-Sept. 11 world.Murakami has accompanied his own writing with translations of American literature.Over the past few ye ...
An Appetite for Books
2007-10-25 20:19:00 Not literally of course. With the first semester over and some sort of vacation (from the university but not from work) now in effect, it?s time for me to catch up on my readings. (Goodbye Sales text book, hahaha!) On my present reading list is The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (hmmm, you might ...
By: (Mis)readings
Tags, Murakami, telephone buttons and haiku
2007-10-12 12:01:00 I’m not feeling well lately. (Again.) So I’ve reset the sectioning system of Postcard Headlines to conform to WordPress’ new tags and categories interface. Now, now. Too bad I didn’t notice the category to tag converter in time, hahaha. Also stumbled upon two interesting sites while taking a break from the reading of Haruki Murakami’s novel, ...
By: (Mis)readings
Book Review: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
2007-08-26 02:39:00 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, by Haruki MurakamiThe overriding theme that coheres in this new collection of short stories spanning Murakami?s writing career is existential loneliness. Whether the protagonist is man or woman, married or single, straight or gay, young or old, none is immune to the vagaries of fate, the touch of death, the uncomfortable nudge of happenstance. Characters frequently do not know what is happening to them, why it is happening, or what to say about it. The freak wave, the poor aunt, the phantom phone caller, the ice man?all are simply manifestations of the unknowable darkness outside the campfire of quotidian human existence that waits patiently to envelope us.Standout stories are ?Hunting Knife?, a juxtaposition of connubial complacence and familial misery; ?Man-Eating Cats? (which was the basis of the novel Sputnik Sweetheart), a harsh lesson in life?s unexpected twists; ?Tony Takitani?, a study of absence that has recently been made into a feature film; ...
Thoughts on:
"Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" by Haruki Murakami 2007-02-28 14:01:05 Murakami is remarkably consistent: his writing seldom if ever slips below the readable mark. Many of the stories here rank up with his best work. "The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes" is a humorous and frightening Kafka-esque tale of psychotic crows and their control of a dessert company, the sort of story that only Murakami can dream up. The story that gave the collection its name, meanwhile,
By: Dead Flowers
Haruki Murakami
2007-02-23 11:01:00 As I was coming out from the Underground I was wondering, what would the city look like now, After the quake. My Sputnik sweetheart was nowhere to be found and I was tired, but still determined to continue my path to find that Hard boiled Wonderland & the End of the world. I knew that this was not going to be easy, but at least I had some sort of map or so. On the map it was written that I should follow the road that was lying South of the border, west of the sun. The road was leading to the Norwegian Wood. There I was supposed to meet a man, a great writer widely known for his beautiful novels. The name of that man is Haruki Murakami and this is his website: www.harukimurakami.comDon't miss it, a wonderful experience!
After the Quake, Haruki Murakami
2007-02-20 04:06:01 “Unexpectedly powerful, a collection of stories, slender and small as a hand, about the emotional after-shocks of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe … Even if After the Quake has nothing to say about Murakami, which it certainly does, I’d gladly settle for what it says about us.” Jeff Giles, The New York Times Book Review Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways. She never said a word. Sunk deep in the cushions of the sofa, her mouth clamped shut, she wouldn’t answer when Komura spoke to her. She wouldn’t shake her head or nod. Komura could not be sure the sound of his voice was even getting through to her. Book Review by Hertzan Chimera It?s never easy reviewing the work of Haruki Murakami, without merely figurizing your delight in rolling fields of poignant adulation and Nobel-Prize-worthy rhetoric ? his work garners such resp...
By: The Open Critic
Haruki Murakami opens up about translating America's literary giants
0000-00-00 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}Acclaimed author Haruki Murakami took time out from writing his first full-length novel since 2002's "Kafka On The Shore" to talk exclusively to the Mainichi.Murakami spoke on a broad spectrum of topics ranging from recent Japanese translation trends -- including his own work on contemporary classics -- to awareness in the post-Sept. 11 world.Murakami has accompanied his own writing with translations of American literature.Over the past few ye ... |
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