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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Information
1,178 words, approx. 4 pages
 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru?) is a novel by Haruki Murakami. The American translation and its British adaptation (English) are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997. Two chapters were...



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 Artforum International
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
11/01/1997: 705 words, approx. 2 pages Some novels, for the purposes of retelling, elicit paraphrasing: detective tracks down killer who uses smallpox-like virus and computer tricks.... Some, however, evoke lists. Take One Hundred Years of Solitude. The quickest route to a description might run: there's a colonel who loses every...
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 World Literature Today
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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...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Michael Wood
3,535 words, approx. 12 pages
 In the following review, Wood examines the metafictional themes of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
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Critical Review by Lindsley Cameron
2,745 words, approx. 9 pages
 In the following excerpt, Cameron finds The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to be ambitious in its scope and skillfully crafted in its style, but ultimately decides that the novel (“a bad good book”) is a failure.
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Critical Review by Edward Hower
2,430 words, approx. 8 pages
 In the following review, Hower assesses Murakami's accomplishment in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, offering thematic and character analyses.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 81%
Cultural Values in the Wind-up Bird Chronicle
455 words, approx. 2 pages
 In Haruki Murakami's novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, the cultural values of the characters and their ways are somewhat unreal and outside of the Japanese culture.


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