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Murakami Haruki is an important figure in contemporary Japanese letters for his extensive translations from American fiction, and the enormous popularity of his own fiction has drawn attention to his work as a translator. His translation work has also de...

ABSTRACT: Conspicuous in the work of author Haruki Murakami are his use of the hard-boiled detective, in whom Murakami recognizes himself as a professional writer, and the problematizing of the boundaries that separate one genre from another and circumscribe genre discourse in general....

There ought to be a name for the genre Murakami (A Wild Sheep Chase) has invented, and it might be the literary pyrotechno-thriller. The plot here is so elaborate that about 100 pages, one-fourth of the book, elapse before its various elements begin...