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Biography

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

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Biography of Haruki Murakami
4,017 words, approx. 13 pages
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...


Quotations
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Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Haruki Murakami [村上春樹 ( Murakami Haruki )], (born 12 January 1949 ) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer. Sourced You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Haruki Murakami Information
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Haruki Murakami (村上春樹, Murakami Haruki?, born January 12, 1949) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Midnight to Sunrise With Murakami
5/15/2007: 579 words, approx. 2 pages
AFTER DARKBy Haruki Murakami Alfred A. Knopf, 191 pages, $22.95 Haruki Murakami works wonders with daytime. In the Japanese novelist’s very best books—Dance Dance Dance (1988) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994)—un- or semi-employed protagonists discover that, when the rest of us are stuck at...
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The New York Observer
Prizewinning Short Stories From a Japanese Master
10/15/2006: 961 words, approx. 3 pages
Gentle and enchanted, the 24 stories of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s latest collection, are frequently brief, unassuming and understated—but never flat or vacant. Mr. Murakami presents new variations on familiar preoccupations: brooding mid-20’s or -30’s male narrators, adulterous lovers, and a...
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The New York Observer
Prizewinning Short Stories From a Japanese Master
10/15/2006: 961 words, approx. 3 pages
Gentle and enchanted, the 24 stories of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s latest collection, are frequently brief, unassuming and understated—but never flat or vacant. Mr. Murakami presents new variations on familiar preoccupations: brooding mid-20’s or -30’s male narrators, adulterous lovers, and a...
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The New York Observer
A Writer's Magical Touch: Bare Bones, a Touch of Poetry
1/23/2005: 1,585 words, approx. 5 pages
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Alfred A. Knopf, 436 pages, $25.95.This is the way these things happen, don't ask why. Nakata has a mind that works simply, even if he's not exactly a simpleton. He forgets...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Matthew C. Strecher
14,394 words, approx. 48 pages
Strecher is an assistant professor of Japanese Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Montana. In the following essay, he discusses Murakami's narrative strategies and styles in A Wild Sheep Chase, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Norwegian Wood, speculating on the novelist's achievement in relation to both the traditions of jun-bungaku and postmodernism.
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Critical Essay by Celeste Loughman
6,360 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Loughman analyzes the characterization, particularly of the narrators, in Murakami's stories.
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Critical Review by Lorna Sage
2,818 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following review, Sage relates the common themes of South of the Border, West of the Sun and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to Murakami's general concern with defining a postmodern Japanese consciousness.


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