Murakami was born on 12 January 1949 and today is his 73rd birthday. Coincidentally, the birthday of Jack London (12 January 1876 – 22 November 1916) and Murakami are the same (London was born 73 years before Murakami), and Murakami once created a “Jack London Club” on the Internet for people with the same birthday […]
In the interview on Brutus Magazine, released today, he mentioned what triggered him to write Dance Dance Dance.
Murakami’s short story, Barn Burning (included in The Elephant Vanishes), gives unusual elements in usual life. Its surrealism does not exist in the setting but does in the way that the characters behave. Like many great literature pieces, the story provides a clue to investigate the reader’s own insight, but there is no correct answer. […]
Pictures of the places possibly appeared or mentioned in Haruki Murakami’s Dance Dance Dance. Before noon I drove to Aoyama to do my shopping at the fancy-schmancy Kinokuniya supermarket. ―Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (Ch.17) After rebuilding in 2009, Kinokuniya supermarket is located on the basement floor of the shopping complex named AO: coincidentally the […]