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“When you read Haruki Murakami, you’re reading me, at least ninety-five per cent of the time,” Jay Rubin—

Haven't read any of novels because I've been too busy digging deeper into this. I mean, wtf.

And ~100 pages were cut from the American edition of Hard-Boiled, so we're reading abridged versions as well. wtf.
— Sep 26, 2026 05:06PM
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Sep 27, 2026 04:36AM

Oldman_JE (...)explaining what he says to American readers, most of whom prefer to believe otherwise. “Murakami wrote the names and locations, but the English words are mine."

Okay, I get it he translated it. Since Murakami was also a translator, were people thinking he translated his own material?

Wind-up Bird was released in 3 parts in Japan, America got ~25,000 words cut and 1 novel.


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