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The Elephant Vanishes 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
4017 words, approx. 13.4 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 de...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Elephant Vanishes Information
529 words, approx. 2 pages
The Elephant Vanishes is a collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written between 1983 and 1990, and the collection's first English publication was in 1993. Several of the stories originally appeared (often with...


News and Journals
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The Village Voice
The Elephant Vanishes
07/28/2004: 696 words, approx. 2 pages
Complicité renders Murakami's Tokyo in dazzling light THE ELEPHANT VANISHES Adapted from a book by Haruki Murakami New York State Theater 63rd Streetand Broadway (Closed) SLEEP IS DEATH Guaranteed: Nearly everyone in the audience is in tears...
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World Literature Today
The Elephant Vanishes. (book reviews)
03/22/1994: 874 words, approx. 3 pages
Among Japanese writers born after the war whose work has been translated into English, Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) has received the most attention, especially since the 1989 publication in English of his 1982 novel Hitsuji o meguru boken (Eng. A Wild Sheep Chase; see...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by David L. Ulin
1,231 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Ulin describes the general style, themes, principal characters, and tone of Murakami's short fiction in The Elephant Vanishes.
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Critical Review by Celeste Loughman
888 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Loughman discusses the sense of emptiness conveyed by the themes and characters of The Elephant Vanishes.
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Critical Review by Jim McCue
818 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, McCue focuses on the indifferent descriptions and emotional detachment of Murakami's narrative style in The Elephant Vanishes.


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