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Featured Author: Haruki Murakami
With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
In This FeatureReviews of Haruki Murakami’s Earlier Books An Interview With Haruki Murakami Recent Links
Daniel Zalewski Reviews ‘Underground’ and ‘Sputnik Sweetheart’ (June 10, 2001) First Chapter: ‘Underground’ First Chapter: ‘Sputnik Sweetheart’ Audio
A Discussion With Haruki Murakami (Nov. 3, 2000)
The Associated PressHaruki Murakami
‘A Wild Sheep Chase‘
(1989)
“What is Haruki Murakami’s special magic? How does he keep us involved in this wild sheep chase, all the way to the bitter end? . . . Murakami is a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wise man.”‘Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World‘
(1991)
“. . . would have been better if Mr. Murakami had been able to get more emotion into his story. . . . Murakami’s novel, wherever it calls for imaginative and inventive expansion, fobs us off with generics
and categories . . . The characters in the novel are cardboard cutouts . . .”‘The Elephant Vanishes‘
(1993)
“This is a Japan characterized by a peculiar spiritual torpor. . . . Most of Mr. Murakami’s stories have a fabulistic edge. . . . Yet even in the slipperiest of Mr. Murakami’s stories, pinpoints
of detail flash out . . .”‘Dance Dance Dance‘
(1994)
“. . . continues the tale of the cynical but sensitive loner who first appeared in ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ . . . If only ‘Dance Dance Dance’ were as light on its feet. . . . never quite
decides what it wants to be.”
‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle‘
(1997)
“. . . a big, ambitious book clearly intended to establish Murakami as a major figure in world literature. . . . a significant advance in Murakami’s art. . . . does have its flaws, principally in its
uneven design . . . Yet what Murakami lacks in finesse is more than compensated by the brilliance of his invention.”
First Chapter: ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’
‘South of the Border, West of the Sun‘
(1999)
“That he manages, in his sexual explicitness, to make intimacy real — appealing and unembarrassing, innocent even — stands him in contrast to the work of many American writers . . . This wise and beautiful
book is full of hidden truths.”
First Chapter: ‘South of the Border, West of the Sun’
‘Norweigan Wood‘
(2000)
“A masterly novel of late-60’s love . . . Rubin’s superb translation is the first English edition authorized for publication outside Japan . . . As disconcerting as Murakami’s weirdest work
. . . Even when Haruki Murakami is writing fantasy, he doesn’t write fairy tales.”Roll Over Basho: Who Japan Is Reading, and Why
(1992)
In this transcript of a discussion about Japanese literature with Jay McInerney, Murakami says, “I am not all that conscious of rebelling against this preceding generation of writers or against writers like
Kawabata and Tanizaki. If anything, I think it would be more accurate to say that what I have been doing is unrelated to these writers.”Previous Author Features From The New York Times on the Web
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