Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards. Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner. His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.
Не пройшло і чотирьох років як я осилила цю книгу. Муракамі радіо 2, як і Муракамі радіо 1, це найліпші книги Муракамі, на мою думку. Його буденний нон-фікшн, короткі атмосферні прості записи про життя і все на світі, які ми дуже любимо, бо глибоко розуміємо, або ж хочемо, щоб це траплялось з нами. (Всілякі фразочки типу "Коли я жив у Римі", "того разу, як подорожував Грецією", "коли викладав в університеті в Америці", "коли бігав кожного ранку у Швеції" написані настільки просто і без гордості, що мимоволі хочеш таке життя і собі, сповнене спокою і впевненості у своїй долі, справі, власних думках. Короче Муракамі якийсь Габен). Якщо в цій серії будуть ще Муракамі радіо 4, 5, 25, 140, я читатиму. От тільки не японською бо це бісова мова яку вигадав сам диявол.
интересная ненавязчивая задумка. к некоторым главам так и хотелось мысленно добавить фразу: «дорогой дневник…».
«Мне кажется, что писателей в общем и целом можно охарактеризовать как людей, которые уделяют слишком много внимания довольно-таки странным (и бесполезным) вещам и событиям. Иногда зациклишься на чем-нибудь и поневоле ходишь и думаешь: «Ну, почему? Почему снова фигня-то такая?!»
иногда казалось, знаете, будто подслушиваешь самые сокровенные разговоры/монологи и чувствуешь по этому поводу мерзкую вину, но человек догадывается о вашем присутствии и никак этому не противится. напротив, начинает говорить громче и отчетливее, чтобы вы его лучше поняли.
As well as his other essays, it was simple, amusing and laid-back. I like the way he writes about trivial things in his daily life. It was good enough to make me relaxed, but I was sorry that I took only 1 hour to finish even though I paid 1400 yen.