SNL Dakota Fanning Skit (Pynchon mention)

[Chris Broderick]

I'd also recommend his li'l story collection After The
Quake, which is, like the title implies, a handful of
stories about the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. 
Easily his most affective work of fiction(s) since
WUBC.  Underground was quite fascinating, too, though
I was hoping for more insight into Aum Shinrikyo.  But
that wasn't what Murakami was going for....

Still waiting for something that'll blow me outta the
water the way WUBC did...

-Chris


Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:16:11 +1100
From: "John BAILEY" <JBAILEY at theage.com.au>
Subject: RE: SNL Dakota Fanning Skit (Pynchon mention)

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Wind-Up Bird is very much about denial of past crimes;
in fact a lot of
his work from WUBC onwards deals with collective
trauma and cultural
amnesia. Which makes it unusual for Japanese
literature, though it's 
not
necessarily obvious reading it in a non-Japanese
context.
 
Underground (non-fiction) is also def. worth looking
at - interviews
with survivors of the Aum Shinrikyo subway gas attack
as well as 
members
of the cult. Again, more about the way the response to
the attack
reveals something about Japanese culture.



 
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