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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsHaruki Murakami and the Music of Wordsby Jay Rubin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"If literature is dead, someone forgot to invite Haruki Murakami to the funeral." — Jay Rubin As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo jazz club, Peter Cat, where he wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds and when he writes, his words have a music all their own, much of it learned from jazz. Besides being the distinguished translator of Murakami's work, Professor Jay Rubin is a self-confessed fan. He 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; explains how he developed a distinctive new style in Japanese; and how, on his return to Japan from America, he came to regard the Kobe earthquake (in which his parents' house was destroyed) and the Tokyo subway gas attack as twin manifestations of a violence lying just beneath the surface of Japanese life. Since 1993 Rubin has been studying Murakami's writing, interviewing him, and collaborating with him in preparing his works for an English-speaking audience. Synopsis: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. About the AuthorJay Rubin is a professor of Japanese literature at Harvard University. He has translated Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, and The Elephant Vanishes. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Readme Pronunciation and Name Order 1 Prelude 1 "The 1963/1982 Girl from Ipanema" 8 2 The Birth of Boku 13 Chopped Onions and Fragmented Fiction 29 Hear the Wind Sing: Chapter 1 41 3 Half-Remembered Tune 48 Pinball, 1973 49 "A Poor-Aunt Story" 56 A Slow Boat to China 64 A Perfect Day for Kangaroos 66 4 Keeping the Ears Clean 74 A Wild Sheep Chase 78 5 Etudes 103 Firefly, Barn Burning and Other Stories 104 Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round 108 6 Song of My Self 114 Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 114 7 Wagner Overtures and Modern Kitchens 131 "The Second Bakery Attack" 131 "The Elephant Vanishes" 136 8 Pop Melody 144 The House of the Rising Sun 144 Norwegian Wood 147 9 Dancing to a Different Tune 167 Dance Dance Dance 167 "TV People" and "Sleep" 171 "Tony Takitani" 180 10 On the Road Again 184 South of the Border, West of the Sun 194 11 Overture to The Thieving Magpie 201 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle 204 12 The Rhythm of the Earth 237 Underground 237 The Lexington Ghost 248 Sputnik Sweetheart 250 after the quake 255 13 When I'm Sixty-Four 265 App. A Translating Murakami 273 App. B A Murakami Bibliography 290 Notes 304 Index 322 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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