Murakami translated John Cheever’s short stories

Weekend lunch reads of John Cheever’s short stories translated by Murakami. May I share the preface written by Murakami enlighting the treasure of modern literature;

“More than 30 years, I have been thinking about translating John Cheever’s short stories. However, schedule-wise, I have had some other priorities and had put off to do so. I excused to myself that I did not need to be so hectic to work on Cheever’s because of several reasons; one of them was that most of the Cheever’s short stories were with well-established style and quality without risk of possible up-and-down even after a while. In other words, “Cheever may wait for me in a serene manner””

The stories Murakami chose and translated are as follows:

• The Enormous Radio
• O City of Broken Dreams
• The Sutton Place Story
• Torch Song
• Clancy in the Tower of Babel
• The Cure
• The Superintendent
• The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
• The Worm in the Apple
• The Country Husband
• The Scarlet Moving Van
• Reunion
• The Geometry of Love
• The Swimmer
• The World of Apples
• Percy
• The Fourth Alarm
• Goodbye, My Brother
• What Happened
• Why I Write Short Stories