Murakami
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
~Haruki Murakami
Have you ever read a book that touches your soul? I just finished Murakami's Kafka on The Shore this past weekend. It poses so many questions between what is reality, what is myth and dreams, time and soul, conscience and unconscience. I'm still a bit lost in the world he created in that novel, so my writing has been a bit dreamy. In the meantime, I leave you with some of his qoutes I found he delivered in interviews.
posted by Class Officers at
11:01 AM
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Dude, Lauren gave me that book to read last month. That is one trippy book. His style kind of reminds me of Stephen King. The surreal out of the mundane. That book inspired me to write that entry about my subconscious and how it resembles the ocean.
Hi,nice to meet you. I'm Japanese loving Haruki Murakami. I've read Kafka on the Shore in English and Japanese. That is one of his great work. Have you read "Hard-boiled wonderland and the end od the world"? you'll love it if you like "Kafka on the shore".
Thanks, Asamick, I'll check it out. Mean while I'm reading '100 years of Solitude' and I just picked up Murukami's 'Dance, Dance, Dance.'
one of the best books i've ever read. i've read a few more of his other books, but i think they pale in comparison. i think i'll try "hard boiled..."
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