A Wild Sheep Chase

Kuznetsov Sergey kuznet at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 28 17:02:11 CST 2000


>
> Anyway there is a phrase in English "A wild goose chase" Of
> course everybody knows what it is. There is a postmodern
> Japanese book by Haruki Murakami which is translated in English
> with the title called "A wild sheep chase". I think nobody has
> read it before.

Ha! Murakami novel has been intelectual bestseller in Russia 3 years ago. In
Russian it's called "Okhota na Ovec" -"The Sheep Chase" or "Hunt for a
Sheeps".
And more: as I remember the novel has been discussed a year ago on the
Pynchon list!! Hence, somebody read it before.

Sergey Kuznetsov
Moscow, CA
Sunnyvale, Russia



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