murakami

If I go on vacation to a beach or something like that, there is no author that I know will be quite as enjoyable as Murakami.

So in 2006 Tomohiko Murakami, a pioneering Hokkaido doctor, decided to turn it into a blueprint for health-care reform.

Mr Murakami's narrative flows slowly, and his portrayal of the dead hours of a city creates a rounded sense of place.

As he trains for the race, Mr Murakami muses on his tragic efforts to outpace ageing, in a doomed bid to reduce his rising race times.

Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers.

Of course, a real nihilist would not run six miles a day-or write a dozen novels and volumes of stories, as Mr Murakami has done.

Curse is a strong word, especially when it is found in war fiction, and it is easy to read it in a way that Murakami does not intend.

Mr Fukui told parliament that by February he "had begun to have doubts" about Mr Murakami.

Murakami: No. I just tell myself once in a while: Haruki, you'll make it. But in fact I don't think of anything while I'm running.

In 1979, Murakami's first novel "Hear the Wind Sing, " the first installment of a trilogy called "Trilogy of theRat, " was published.

Many parallels can be drawn between the views expressed in his works and those proclaimed by Takashi Murakami in his super flat manifesto.

I'm the only one of the three Murakami translators who's worked with the other two translators on projects.

The Macy's parade studio in Hoboken, N. J. , had only a few months to work on the designs with Mr. Murakami.

Murakami is now preparing another package for the candidate that will include a good-luck charm from the local Obama Shrine.

Known for his vivid imagination and his surreal, potent dreamscapes, Murakami's works have earned him widespread critical acclaim.

Murakami: Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running.

"This kind of drop in bonuses would be unthinkable in normal times, " said Naoki Murakami, chief economist at Monex Securities.

A black cat, two moons and a host of nocturnal little people populate Haruki Murakami's new novel. But has he become more conventional?

Haruki Murakami, whose surreal stories feature talking cats, giant frogs and fish that fall from the sky, has been labeled a cult author.

PAT MURAKAMI runs a small computer repair shop and does a little political agitating on the side.

One interviewer visited Murakami's flat and found a room lined with more than 7, 000 vinyl records.

Murakami purposefully keeps explanations of the war curse confusing.

Perhaps it was the crushed, social blend of booze and crowds that made Murakami uneasy.

What I got from it is how writers, Murakami included, often tinker with and rework their stories.

Murakami argues that war and colonization make people go where one should not be, both physically and supernaturally.

So all eyes are on Mr. Murakami, who's an unlikely contender for the title of national hero at 61 years of age.

The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami watched as balloons of his Kaikai and Kiki characters were readied for the parade.

Did Murakami resist or revise any parts of your translation?

Mr. Murakami is supposed to be very wise too.

Haruki Murakami's novel, A wild sheep chase, is a detective-like story about looking for a sheep and killing the sheep.

In an interview after the ceremony Mr. Murakami, his bushy hair tied in a knot, seemed exuberant.

Murakami faced a choice between his business and a career as a writer.

Haruki Murakami is one of my favorite authors.

"I'd really like to meet someone who reads Murakami, " said a woman (20s, bangs, Water for Elephants).

Please describe and analyze the relationship of the married couple in Haruki Murakami's " The Secondary Bakery Attack. "

Mr. Murakami said Japan, having experienced the trauma of radiation, should have turned away from nuclear power.

The genius of Murakami is in his discipline, focus and determination.

The first part is presentation of Japanese society and the backgrounds of Murakami Haruki, and define the post-modernism in his writings.

After the publication of his 1987 novel "Norwegian Wood, " Murakami becamean associate researcher at Princeton University in New Jersey.

The novel demonstrates Murakami's particular blend of pop culture, surrealism, suspense, humor, and potent sexuality.

The son is huck and murakami, Tom, another child together in a boat to a island.

In this extended monologue, Murakami reminisces about his life as seen through the prism of the sport.

For Murakami, the curse is not a punishment or atonement for bloody atrocities.

My favorite Murakami book is Wind-up Bird Chronicle, a mesmerising "experiential" piece of fiction.

Murakami noted that Barack Obama's birthday, August 4, happens to be "Chopsticks Day" in the city.

Takashi Murakami in his Thanksgiving Day parade costume.

Murakami shrugs. "I can leave my editor, but I can't leave my wife. "

But Murakami also includes less-expected, and therefore more gripping, violence.

Haruki Murakami is among Japan's most prolific and highly acclaimed writers of fiction and nonfiction.

By Haruki Murakami. This guy is such an imaginative writer.

Mr. Murakami's English-speaking fans have waited for more than two years for a translation of '1Q84, ' which came out in Japan in 2009.

Asked if another volume will appear, Murakami said, 'I can't completely deny that possibility. '

Curiously, Murakami translated The Catcher in the Rye into Japanese and found it good but incomplete.

The third chapter describes the researching of the metropolis youth's salvation road under Haruki Murakami's humanistic care.

His translator, Professor Jay Rubin, says reading Murakami changes your brain.

It became these things later in lesser works by lesser artists: Michael Nyman, Takashi Murakami, Tracey Emin and Jonathan Safran Foer.

No, but Mr. Murakami is too skillful a trickster to rely on conventional notions of storytelling.

This paper is composed of three parts to discuss the post-modernism factors of Murakami Haruki's novels.

The author's note tells us that Mr. Murakami has written "some 40" novels over the last 35 years.

Murakami uses novel-inside-a-novel to reveal the failings of mainstream Japanese society.

A Japanese weekly magazine reported his departure under the headline "Haruki Murakami has escaped from Japan" .

Mr Murakami's banalities are more likely a reflection of how difficult it can be to translate Japanese into English.

Most of Murakami's characters had unhappy childhoods, not coincidentally, he says.

"Norwegian Wood" is the most influential work of Mr. Murakami, it is his only realistic fiction in genre.

To me, this student is like Murakami's untrained novelist.

But when Takashi Murakami saw his contributions to Thursday's event, he bowed. Twice.

He likes Haruki Murakami , I also liked detective story, the logic in the book.

Murakami's novels, on a purely informational level, fill this gap.

I admire Jay's and Alfred's translations, but I just do my own thing, my own take on what Murakami should sound like in English.

"I was thinking about sunshine, " Mr. Murakami said in his broken English.

Murakami's description on sex is the embodiment of Japan's traditional view of sex and lascivious aesthetic ideas.

Murakami loves cats and uses them to create unique, mesmerizing imagery.

A self-confessed oddball, Mr Murakami is a peculiar memoirist.

In Mr. Murakami's new "Popular Hits of the Showa Era, " all of the characters suffer from a kind of national cabin fever.

Mr. Murakami left Sasebo and settled in Tokyo, but this theme carried over.

Perhaps the most striking thing about Murakami is his creativity.

I don't care if it's murakami.

The first section mainly analyzes the respect to human by Haruki Murakami.

"Lonelyness" is the theme throughout the Jananese modern writer, Haruki Murakami's novels.

"Of course, we are in a position where we must think about the risk going forward, " Mr. Murakami said.

Haruki Murakami's most recent book is a novel, "After Dark. "

And the Nobel Prize Winner is. . . Haruki Murakami?

Many of Mrs Murakami's supporters are recent refugees from autocratic regimes.

This year Mr. Murakami sent word that he wanted to create balloons of Kaikai and Kiki.

Most of all, Murakami writes about love, passion and loneliness.

What unites them, Mr. Murakami writes, is that "they'd all given up on committing positively to anything in life. "

Haruki Murakami isone of Japan'smost famous novelists.

For those 11 hours, you disappear wholly into Murakami world.

Naturally Mr. Murakami will forestall explaining what the bond is for as long as he can.

It is Mr. Murakami's first work to be written in the third person.

Like Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami takes low culture and repackages it, and sells it to the highest bidder in the "high-art" market.

The Far East Design Vibes that is Murakami Design Office, a multimedia agency located in Tokyo, Japan.

Mr. Murakami is far too playful and allusive an artist to be restricted by a banal criterion like that one.

Q: How did you approach Mr. Murakami with the idea to adapt his novel?

Murakami's workshave been translated into 40 languages and have sold millions of copies.

Mr Murakami is an intriguing man; and so is his book.

In that instant, Murakami knew he was going to write a novel.

Haruki Murakami paid a lot of attention to the metropolis youth's spirit world.

I'm a big fan of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.

You like to sit in bed and read novels written by haruki murakami.

I know I have to write it, because Murakami can make a difference in your startup life too.

Murakami's opinion on almost every topic is sought in Japan where he is the country's most recognised intellectual.

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai are the representatives of the "multi-culture" .

A Comparative Study of Haruki Murakami and Japanese "Introversion" Literature

Haruki Murakami: Always on the Side of the Egg

Haruki Murakami in Modern and Contemporary Perspective of The West

but Haruki Murakami is a recognized " American " novelist,

On Haruki Murakami's Instinctive Desire for Music

Haruki Murakami is a representative writer of Japan has the world's reputation,

A Wild Murakami Chase in the Norwegian Wood