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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

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Author Biography

Name: Haruki Murakami
Birth Date: January 12, 1949
Nationality: Japanese
Ethnicity: Japanese
Gender: Male

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Biography of Haruki Murakami
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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...


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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando?) is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum...


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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Postmodernism and genre fiction as deferred action: Haruki Murakami and the noir tradition.(Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World)
09/22/2007: 11,328 words, approx. 38 pages
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....
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. (book reviews)
08/02/1991: 187 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
 


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