Haruki Murakami fans discussion

Discussion thread for Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami.

I have just started on this. I had previously only read chapter 3 to get some background on Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The City and Its Uncertain Walls. I am very interested in the details about translators and publishers.

I am at the 12% mark and keep asking myself, why is this, that the other important?

This is alot about people for whom there does not need to be much told.

I don’t know if this will help but here are two reviews of the book.

The first is short. https://asianreviewofbooks.com/who-we...

The Asian Review of Books is a more detailed look into the book.
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/who-we...

Jack originated this post elsewhere, I am inspired to re-use it here. Maybe Jack will not notice:

Novelist as a Vocation

It is now on my want to read list

I am going to force finish this maybe today.

I Do not get why I am supposed to care if these three or those four people met for lunch or maybe just drink on this or that partic day , if at all.

The first problem I am going to have in my review will be: who is a reasonable audience for this book.

Novelist as a vocation, sounds way more interesting, I may go for that, but next up will be the reading of the new translation of End of the World

An article from lithub.com “Inside the Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel, David Karashima on Hard-Boiled Wonderland End of the World” with a published extract of the book.

https://lithub.com/inside-the-intrica...

I need to go back to this book when I read or reread HM novels.