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	Haruki Murakami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 but spent most of his youth in Kobe.
		Murakami taught at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ and at Tufts University in Medford, MA.
		Murakami's fiction, which is often criticized for being "pop" literature by Japan's literary establishment, is humorous and surreal, and at the same time reflects an essential alienation, loneliness and longing for love in a way that has touched readers in the US and Europe, as well as in East Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haruki_Murakami (1418 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Haruki Murakami
		"Haruki Murakami was born in Kobe in 1949 and studied drama at Waseda University.
		Murakami is Japan's most popular writer, so I find it interesting that the West plays such a prominent role in his novels' characters and style.
		Murakami's spin on this theme and the Oedipus myth is daringly original and compulsively readable, enabled by Philip Gabriel's wonderfully fluent translation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Haruki-Murakami (3684 words)

	World Press Review - Books Japanese Literature - Haruki Murakami
		Murakami sees this as part of a more general retreat into formalism: “After the war and modernization, the Japanese lost their sense of home and were deeply hurt.
		Murakami himself tries to recover the realm of the spirit by other means; he doesn’t look back.
		Murakami takes another view: “Sex is a key to enter a spirit....Sex is like a dream when you are awake; I think dreams are collective.
	www.worldpress.org /0801books1.htm (976 words)

	Haruki Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Haruki Murakami (村上春樹 Murakami Haruki; born January 12, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Underground is a book by haruki murakami about the sarin gas attack on the tokyo subway by aum shinrikyo in 1995....
		The elephant vanishes is a collection of short stories by the japanese author haruki murakami translated into english by alfred birnbaum and jay rubin....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/haruki_murakami.htm (2743 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Marathon man
		Haruki Murakami ran a jazz club in Tokyo before he was first inspired to write.
		Murakami credits the long hours and the need for financial prudence with providing a solid platform upon which to establish his independence from the template of the Japanese "salaryman", wedded to the same paternalistic company from graduation to the grave.
		They wrote to Murakami in their tens of thousand; they paid visits to the Shinjuku nightclub mentioned in the text; they bought CDs compiled from the featured music, boxes of chocolates done up in wrapping paper with a Norwegian forest theme, and guides to the book's various locations.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,957520,00.html (3159 words)

	village voice > books > Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood by Daniel Handler
		Murakami's best work is as deep and decorative as those Easter Island heads, but he doesn't make a big deal out of it.
		Murakami's style is still developing in Norwegian Wood, and some of the risks he takes don't pay off for a couple of books or so.
		Murakami's penchant for Western pop culture references, for example, is in full force here, and it's not quite clear why a writer would merely list names—Mancini, Capote, Bogart, and Jim Morrison are among the name-drops—for any other purpose besides looking hip.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0039/handler.php (836 words)

	Haruki Murakami - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		In other places, though, Murakami is less satisfying: his record of the Greek Island's recent history is banal, and his attempts to describe the passage of the world where Sumire has gone to meet the perfect version of her lover is heavy handed and stubbornly un-nuanced.
		Murakami acknowledges this, explaining that he "endeavored to maintain the basic stance that each person's story is true within the context of that story.
		Murakami refuses the ease of an "us and them/good and evil" attitude, instead exploring what it is in each of us that is reflected in the actions of these home-grown terrorists.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2001summer/murakami.shtml (1236 words)

	Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words - Jay Rubin
		Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words isn't a very long book, but Rubin is fairly ambitious: it is not merely (or even mainly) biography, but rather focusses on literary criticism and analysis, which Rubin uses fairly effectively in tracing Murakami's life and career.
		Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words offers a welcome glimpse at the two earliest novels, in particular, as Rubin describes how Murakami came to be a writer and how his early career developed.
		Murakami's stays abroad, his friendships (including encounters with Raymond Carver and John Irving, both of whose work he translated), the difficulties of living with his sort of success in Japan, and personal quirks (including practically never appearing on television) are all mentioned in an engaging, casual (occasionally too much so) overview.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/murakamih/rubinj.htm (1437 words)

	Powell's Books - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
		With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.
		Murakami gives readers a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.
		Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1400043662-0 (958 words)

	Metropolis - Big in Japan: Murakami Haruki
		On the shelves of the international bookstores, you' find Haruki Murakami to be one of the most widely translated Japanese novelists.
		The appeal of Murakami's fiction lies in the characters and sub-plots that are interwoven through all of his novels.
		Murakami's response to the dangers he perceived was Underground, published in 1997, a collection of interviews with survivors of the 1995 subway gas attack.
	metropolis.japantoday.com /biginjapanarchive249/233/biginjapaninc.htm (496 words)

	After the Quake by Haruki Murakami - read review
		Murakami's book is full of these kinds of riddles, but they are narrated in much the way one might overhear a story told in a bar.
		Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949, and moved to Hyogo (Ashiya City) when he was one-year-old.
		Murakami is also known as a skillful translator of Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, John Irving, Paul Theroux, and other American contemporary authors.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /world/murakami.htm (1014 words)

	Haruki Murakami Does Seattle - A Review
		Murakami has been well-received by critics in the United States, who seem to enjoy his slightly off-center, surrealistic writing style.
		Thhe non-Japanese Murakami fans were young, for the most part, with most in their twenties or thirties.
		Murakami returns to the scene again and again in the story, and I never figured out what on Earth (ittai nani...??) he was trying to say with it.
	www.denbushi.net /webspace/words/reviews/murakami.html (2186 words)

	BBC - collective - haruki murakami
		Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami’s tenth novel, entwines the fates of 15-year-old Kafka Tamura and mentally deficient pensioner Nakata, who talks to cats and causes fish to fall from cloudless skies.
		Murakami novels, though, despite or more often because of their popularity, never fail to divide critics and readers alike.
		The musical analogy is fitting, as Murakami habitually peppers his stories with references to his aural obsessions, from Getz and Coltrane (he and his wife ran a jazz club for seven years) to The Beatles and Mozart.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A3483722 (514 words)

	hackwriters.com - Haruki Murakami Profile - Sam North
		I suspect that Murakami found the Japan hard to live in once he found fame and I know that between 1991 and 1995 he lived and taught in America, shunning publicity.
		Murakami weaves sex into the very earth and he is obsessed by tunnels, silent lovemaking, awakward, tense sex and ultimate longing.
		Murakami’s Norwegian Wood is fantastic, in it’s true sense, an exotic fish in a dark sea.
	www.hackwriters.com /murakami.htm (2100 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Haruki Murakami - Books: Meet the Writers
		Writing in a style that is deceptively plainspoken, Haruki Murakami finds a dreamlike common ground between Japan and the West, conscious and subconscious.
		Murakami doesn't profess to know where the strangeness of his stories comes from, or even what will happen in them once he starts writing.
		Murakami's most popular novel in Japan is more straightforwardly realistic than his other fiction.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=996939 (305 words)

	buchundton.ch: Haruki Murakami
		Haruki Murakami, 1949 in Kyoto geboren, lebte über längere Zeit in den USA und in Europa und hat die Werke von Raymond Chandler, John Irving, Truman Capote und Raymond Carver ins Japanische übersetzt.
		Haruki Murakami hat auf diese Tat geantwortet, indem er mit Angehörigen der Toten, mit Überlebenden aber auch mit Mitgliedern der Sekte sprach.
		Haruki Murakamis Antwort auf den Giftgas-Anschlag in der U-Bahn von Tokyo.
	www.buchundton.ch /thema/murakami.html (1389 words)

	Norwegian Wood - Murakami Haruki
		Murakami shares this gift, but uses it to poor effect here: the story is far weaker than its cast.
		"Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility: a shirt on a washing-line, a string of paper cut-outs, a butterfly hairslide.
		Japanese author Murakami Haruki was born January 12, 1949.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/murakamih/norwood.htm (2049 words)

	village voice > news > Quake II by Roland Kelts
		Worm threatens to unleash total destruction in Murakami's calmly bizarre "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo," one of six stories in his new collection, After the Quake (Knopf), in which a resolutely unremarkable man is called upon to battle the darkest forces of evil in a soulless city—by a giant, urbane amphibian.
		Jay Rubin, his Harvard-based English translator and author of the recent Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (Harvill), calls Wonderland "Murakami's most elaborate exploration of the relationship of the brain to the world it perceives," and says it remains his favorite novel.
		Murakami's reputation for aloofness grew over the years as he studiously avoided the media and literary circles—partly, he says now, because he was shunned by Japanese literary critics for producing a bestseller.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0239/kelts.php (1032 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Haruki Murakami
		The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence.
		With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for...
		From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=21587 (871 words)

	Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In his novel Murakami creates two seemingly isolated and unrelated universes, and he moves between them with an abruptness that leaves the reader thoroughly wrapped up in the mystery.
		Murakami's fascination with American culture can likely be explained by his multicultural upbringing.
		Murakami's novels bring a voice to the voiceless individuals of the impersonal, overwhelming information age.
	students.haverford.edu /east/east260/projects/turner/wonderland.html (1483 words)

	Haruki Murakami Discussion
		Murakami takes you places where the commonplace is extraordinary and the surreal becomes uncomfortably familiar.
		Obviously, Murakami's prose was much more interesting than that, but the point is I knew eventually that something like that would happen, but he still managed to catch me completely off-guard.
		I mean, it was totally evident how the story was going to conclude, but he was able to still keep my interest the whole time, and it's one of the few books that's made me cry.
	www.gnooks.com /discussion/haruki+murakami.html (993 words)

	BookkooB : Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words - Jay Rubin : Compare Book Prices
		A) Haruki Murakami the writer, is not as exciting as his fiction.
		This book is interesting for everyone who wants to dive into the fantastical world of Haruki Murakami, and is an excellent introduction to start further exploration of this fantastical writer and his books.
		Indeed, Murakami seems to be writing together an oeuvre, not a number of individual novels and short story collection.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/1860469523.htm (684 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: M: Murakami, Haruki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bold Type: Haruki Murakami - Excerpt from 'South of the Border, West of the Sun'.
		Haruki Murakami's Complete Works - A complete listing of Murakami's writing (including novels, short stories, essays, works that he's translated, and his works available in translation).
		Murakami Haruki at the Complete Review - An overview of the life and works of Murakami Haruki, with links to extensive reviews of his work at the Complete Review, and further information.
	directory.mozilla.org /Arts/Literature/Authors/M/Murakami,_Haruki (492 words)

	taz 4.10.02 Die Geschichten teilen
		Das ist alles wahr und schlau gesprochen, Haruki Murakami aber, der hergekommen zu sein scheint, um Spaß zu haben, erwischt er damit nicht.
		Dann aber sagt Haruki Murakami doch noch ein paar schöne Sachen, ungefragt natürlich.
		Haruki Murakami erzählt davon, wie er zuerst ein Außenseiter in Japan wurde, weil er keinem großen Unternehmen mehr angehörte.
	www.taz.de /pt/2002/10/04/a0195.nf/text.name,askvaTOsL.n,1 (829 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with Haruki Murakami
		Convinced that he wasn't yet ready to embark on a career as a fiction writer, Murakami spent the next six or seven years running a jazz bar in Tokyo--an experience which provided him with ideal perspective on the evolution of Tokyo's bored-but-hyper youth culture that was then emerging.
		If Murakami was embraced by his younger readers as their spokesperson, the popularity of his novels was viewed by most Japanese literary critics at the time with suspicion and often harsh condemnation.
		Murakami quickly became a flashpoint within Japanese intellectual circles in much the way (and for many of the same reasons) that Brett Ellis and Jay McInerney were in America during the 1980s.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/02_2_inter/interview_Murakami.html (5709 words)

	Haruki Murakami - definition erklärung bedeutung glossar zu Haruki Murakami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Murakami studierte ab 1968 an der Waseda-Universität Theaterwissenschaften.
		Murakami übersetzte verschiedene amerikanische Autoren aus dem Englischen ins Japanische, so z.B. Scott Fitzgerald, John Irving, Paul Theroux und Raymond Carver.
		Murakami hat sich auch mit den beiden Katastrophen auseinandersetzt, die Japan in den letzten Jahren trafen.
	www.adlexikon.de /Haruki_Murakami.shtml (817 words)

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