NP: 1Q84

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 07:51:09 CST 2011


I've said already that Murakami annoys me.  I think it's because of
his teasing metaphysical setups that never go anywhere.  And the ones
that do develop are banal.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> Thank you! That's all I need to know. When Murakami came up in the 1990s, I read one and a half novels and was, well, shocked by their banality. It's not that I don't like Japanese literature in general. Actually I do. But I prefer writers like Inoue, Kawabata, or Oe.



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