Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words
$34.83
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2005
Summary
As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds—jazz, classical, folk, rock—and has more than six thousand records at home. And when he writes, his words have a music all their own, much of it learned from jazz.
Jay Rubin, a self-confessed fan, has written a book for other fans who want to know more about this reclusive writer. He reveals the autobiogra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099455448 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099455447 |
| Author: | Jay Rubin |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2005 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
“A magical mystery tour through Haruki Murakami’s fictional world.”
Jay Rubin’s engaging critical study of Haruki Murakami examines the complex intersection of the Japanese novelist’s life…Rubin is a confident guide to this surreal world * Daily Telegraph *
This genial guide to ‘cool’ Japanese author Haruki Murakami mimics the playfulness of his fictions…His intuitive ‘critique’ gets close to the spirit of his subject * Observer *
a lively and eccentric new critical study * New York Times *
A magical mystery tour through Murakami’s spontaneous, improvised fictional world-Packed with bits of trivia about the author * Evening Standard *
About The Author
Jay Rubin
Jay Rubin is a professor of Japanese Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Injurious to Public Morals- Writers and the Meiji State and Making Sense of Japanese, and he edited Modern Japanese Writers for the Scribner Writers Series. He has translated into English two novels by the Japanese writer Soseki Natsume, and also Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and after the quake.
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