![]() ![]() When asked about the purpose of his writing in a recent interview, he replied: “When I was in my teens, in the 1960s, that was the age of idealism. It’s almost impossible to pin down a single theme in Murakami’s work. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and nominated more than once for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He followed this success with two sequels, Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase, which all together form “The Trilogy of the Rat.” Since then Murakami has written over a dozen novels, works of non-fiction and short story collections, including The Elephant Vanishes (originally published in 1993). His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers in 1979. Many of his characters pass the time listening to music and even the title of a well-known novel is named after a Beatles song: Norwegian Wood. Murakami’s love of music pervades his books. If you are ever in Tokyo you can still visit the Peter Cat today. ![]() After college, Murakami opened a small jazz bar, which he and his wife ran for seven years. Haruki Murakami (in Japanese, 村上 春樹) was born in Kyoto in 1949 and moved to Tokyo to attend Waseda University. “With elegant prose, Haruki Murakami conjures magical worlds overlaying ours.” This Litburo video essay explores the elegance and simplicity of Murakami’s writing style and investigates the feelings of longing and loneliness that characterise his best-known works. ![]()
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