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 ...
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In the following essay, Loughman analyzes the characterization, particularly of the narrators, in Murakami's stories.
The opening scene of Natsume Soseki's 1914 novel Kokoro shows Sensei...
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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...
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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 ...
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Haruki Murakami
