Murakami on Inherent Vice (?)

[Becky Lindroos]

Has Murakami read 1Q84?  I wonder what he thinks two moons is - "realism," “modernism?”  (Well … maybe …  - chuckle)   I’ve read a lot of Murakami’s stuff and I suppose maybe he might not read a lot of contemporary fiction - doesn’t want to be influenced? He has a more dreamy quality than any writer I know of - certainly more than Pynchon.  

So I got curious -  Googled “murakami favorite books” and came up with his Facebook page - 
https://www.facebook.com/harukimurakamiauthor/posts/627318983962162

- where he quotes himself: 

"When someone asks, 'Which three books have meant the most to you?' I can answer without having to think: THE GREAT GATSBY, Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, and Raymond Chandler's THE LONG GOODBYE. All three have been indispensable to me (both as a reader and as a writer); yet if I were forced to select only one, I would unhesitatingly choose GATSBY. Had it not been for Fitzgerald's novel, I would not be writing the kind of literature I am today (indeed, it is possible that I would not be writing at all, although that is neither here not there).”

--from an essay entitled "As Translator, as Novelist," which served as Haruki Murakami's afterword to his Japanese translation of THE GREAT GATSBY (and is published in English in the new collection IN TRANSLATION: Translators on their work and what it means, edited by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky)

 Bek

Bek

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> “In America, or in Europe,” he says apologetically, “people say my
> writing is kind of postmodernism, or magical realism. But I’m not
> interested in those kind of things. I’m not a great reader of Thomas
> Pynchon or so-called postmodernist writers.”
> 
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11197699/Haruki-Murakami-interview.html
> 
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.welluneednt.com/entry/2015/01/26/073000
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l

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