A wild Haruki chase
Subtitle: reading Murakami around the world
By: compiled and translated by the Japan Foundation.
Contributors: Kokusai Kōryū Kikin.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933330662
Subjects: Murakami, Haruki, -- 1949- -- Appreciation
Notes: Based on special feature articles appearing in "Wochi kochi, vol. 12, with some additional articles newly written; the Japanese text translated into English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Jay Rubin; title: To translate and to be translated / by Haruki Murakami; title: Interpreting the Haruki boom / by Inuhiko Yomota; title: The global distributed self-mirroring subterranean neurological soul-sharing picture show / by Richard Powers; title: What we talk about when we talk about Murakami / by Roland Kelts; title: "Loss" in Murakami's works and the 386 generation / by Kim Choon Mie; title: What Russians see in Murakami / by Ivan Sergeevich Logatchov; title: Lu Xun and Murakami: a genealogy of the Ah Q image in East Asian literature / by Shozo Fujii; title: The other side of happiness / by Issey Ogata; title: Haruki Murakami as a contemporaneous phenomenon / by Koichi Oi; title: Contemporary Japanese literature finds a global following / by Shinya Machida; title: Murakami in covers; title: The making of "A wild Haruki chase" / by Koji Sato, Ayumi Hashimoto, Aya Tamura, with outline of the symposium; title: Charts; title: Murakami books worldwide.