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Haruki Murakami

Pinball, 1973

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Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as «easily accessible, yet profoundly complex.» Critics suggest his work draws from film noir and contains elements of magical realism.Very much a continuation of Hear The Wind Sing with the familiar site (J’s bar) and characters (J and Rat). The novel is a collage of everyday episodes of the single 24-year-old Tokyoist, his disinterest in his translation job, his asexual relationship with the twin sisters 208 and 209, and his half-estrangement from social world. He oscillates between ceaseless pursuit of interests (midnight visit to Pinball machine) and resignation (painless farewell to the twins), and at times emerges from the cool, semiotic space of his apartment to bathe in the autumn light.
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  • kashindanialhas quotedlast year
    dense fog or during a typhoon warning, but very few vessels ever availed themselves of the beacon any more. And even if they did, there was only an outside
  • devina wonghas quoted2 years ago
    “Then you don’t have any to lose.” While she gave that some more thought, I polished off the rest of the spaghetti. “Little meaning is there to the things one loses. The glory of things meant to be lost is not true glory. Or so they say.”
  • devina wonghas quoted2 years ago
    “Like the song says, rainy days and Mondays always get ya down.”

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