New Murakami

[bekah]

I've read  Wind-Up Bird Chronicles,  The Wild Sheep Chase,  Norwegian 
Wood,  Kafka on the Shore and I don't know what else - ?  I'd like to 
read South of the Border but ... so many books...

I liked Wind-Up best but The Wild Sheep Chase and Kafka were tied for 
second,  maybe Kafka's a bit better.  Norwegian Wood was kind of not 
in the same league.

Murakami says he writes from a kind of dream state where signifiers 
may or may not be all they are signified to be.   They morph and 
connect to fantasy or magical realism (if you're not to finicky about 
the term).    I think of it as hard-boiled, Japanese,  Borges.    :-)

bekah



At 12:52 PM +0000 6/26/06, Ghetta Life wrote:
>I've read _Wind-up Bird Chronicles_ and _Kafka on the Beach_ and 
>don't think Murakami is much like Pynchon, except for the talking 
>animals...
>
>Ghetta
>
>>From: jbor at bigpond.com
>>
>>http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/not-lost-in-translation/2006/06/22/1150845292121.html
>>
>>Occidental  critics often compare him with postmodernists such as 
>>Don DeLillo and  Thomas Pynchon. But in Japan, as Murakami tells 
>>it, "people do not  think my stories are postmodern".
>
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