As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds-- jazz, classical, folk, rock-- and has more than six thousand records at home. And when he writes, his words have a music all their own, much of it learned from jazz. Jay Rubin, a self-confessed fan, has written a book for other fans who want to know more about this reclusive writer. He reveals the autobiographical elements in Murakami's fiction, and explains how he developed a distinctive new style in Japanese writing. In tracing Murakami's career, he uses interviews he conducted with the author between 1993 and 2001, and draws on insights and observations gathered from over ten years of collaborating with Murakami on translations of his works.
Author(s): Jay Rubin
Publisher: Harvill Press London
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 344
Acknowledgements
Readme
Pronunciation and Name Order
1 Prelude
"The 1963/1982 Girl from Ipanema"
2 The Birth of Boku
Chopped Onions and Fragmented Fiction
Hear the Wind Sing: CHAPTER 1
3 Half-Remembered Tune
Pinball, 1973
“A Poor-Aunt Story”
A Slow Boat to China
A Perfect Day for Kangaroos
4 Keeping the Ears Clean
A Wild Sheep Chase
5 Etudes
Firefly, Barn Burning and Other Stories
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
6 Song of My Self
Hard-boiled. Wonderland and the End of the World
7 Wagner Overtures and Modern Kitchens
“ The Second Bakery Attack ”
“The Elephant Vanishes”
8 Pop Melody
The House of the Rising Sun
Norwegian Wood
9 Dancing to a Different Tune
Dance Dance Dance
“TV People” and “Sleep”
“Tony Takitani”
10 On the Road Again
South of the Border, West of the Sun
11 Overture to The Thieving Magpie
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
12 The Rhythm of the Earth
Underground
The Lexington Ghost
Sputnik Sweetheart
after the quake
13 When I'm Sixty-Four
APPENDIX A: Translating Murakami
(1) Translation and Globalization
(2) Translators, Editors, and Publishers
APPENDIX B: A Murakami Bibliography
Notes
Index
