Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words
 

Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words

by Jay Rubin

As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds—jazz, classical, folk, rock—and has more than six thousand records at home. And when he writes, his words have a music all their own, much of it learned from jazz. Jay Rubin, a self-confessed... (read more)

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  • Rated 5 stars

An excellent book that tracks Murakami's career from Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball all the way up until just before his latest book, Kafka on the Shore was published.

Jay Rubin, Murakami's translator and one of his biggest fans, critically examines Murakami's work, weaving a tale that becomes more than even the sum of its parts. The Music of Words is, quite literally, a fantastic novel in its own right, even when it is, at a base level just a critical examination of Murakami's life...

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    futureblues said:

    An excellent book that tracks Murakami's career from Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball all the way up until just before his latest book, Kafka on the Shore was published.

    Jay Rubin, Murakami's translator and one of his biggest fans, critically examines Murakami's work, weaving a tale that becomes more than even the sum of its parts. The Music of Words is, quite literally, a fantastic novel in its own right, even when it is, at a base level just a critical examination of Murakami's life via his work.

    posted Sunday, April 27 2008
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