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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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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
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. New York. Knopf. 1997. 611 pages. $25.95. ISBN 0-679-44669-9.(Review)
03/22/1999: 510 words, approx. 2 pages
Published half a century after the end of Japan's fifteen-year war that began with the seizure of Manchuria in 1931, the voluminous narrative (1,156 pages in three volumes in Japanese) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle probes the meaning of time, memory, and self-actualization in the...
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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...
 


Criticism and Essays
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.
 
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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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