Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Invitation to view

[Mark Thibodeau]

FUCK!!!

I have an (unpublished, unfinished) novella/script (Fanfare at Zero) that
begins with a pair of cousins in the middle of killing all the animals in a
local zoo before an incoming asteroid collision!

FUCK!!!

J

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:31 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> The sentimental, "it's all good" angle on Murakami always seems to
> take at face value what might elsewise be seen as a major deployment
> of irony. His narrators are perhaps the most equivocating and
> conditional in contemporary lit - cut out all the I guesses and
> supposes and perhapses and you'll halve the book - but then it's hard
> to marry the 'cute' to:
>
> The lengthy scene in which a man is slowly flayed alive
> The demonic avatar of corporate America whose pastimes include
> decapitating cats with pruning shears
> The soldier tasked with executing all of the animals in a zoo before
> an invading army arrives (an amazingly evocative premise for a short
> story):
> https://theeveningrednessinthewest.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/haruki-murakamis-another-way-to-die/
>
> This kind of stuff is maybe 1% of his total output, but it's hard to
> forget.
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >               " the old questions, the old answers. Nothing like
> > them"---Beckett
> >
> > Fate, fGreek sense--classics major he was--up against Existentialism are
> the
> > wells ( allusion intended) from which he uses metaphysics. deep enough?
> > Beyond my judgment yet.
> >
> > So, David, nothing Jungian about his archetypes? Genuinely asking, no
> real
> > idea.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Oct 9, 2015, at 7:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My main problem is the tangential throwaway metaphysics. They are either
> > silly and shallow or lead nowhere.  I've wondered if maybe it's due to my
> > lack of Japanese cultural background.  If so, his archetypes are
> extremely
> > parochial.  And the stories without them aren't compelling.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Friday, October 9, 2015, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> My main argument against the Chronicle is the cast.  I find them all
> very
> >> difficult to engage with, unlike most other Murakmi I've read.  I
> realize
> >> this is more to do with the culture, set & setting, than anything
> else.  I
> >> exist in a culture actively estranging itself so a story about coming to
> >> terms with alienation has to have some emotional texture, some rock in
> the
> >> stream with an irregular surface for me to cling to.
> >>
> >> Contrariwise, my favorite character in WUBC-- that is, the most clearly
> >> embedded in my memory --is Noboru Wataya.  It's his cipherlike nature
> as an
> >> antagonist.  He's a cloudy diamond, of the same water as Brock Vond or
> >> Windust.  Could be I'm just a sucker for ambivalent villainy.  Could be
> >> that's why I haven't absquatulated from Amerika already...
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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