Haruki Murikami’s Webpage<\/a><\/p>\nHis works appear influenced by American culture, including its music and literature. One can sense traces of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan peaking through the paragraphs.<\/p>\n
Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His worked initially at a record store, and we revisit that in Norwegian Wood with one of his classic characters works – Toru Watanabe. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse Peter Cat<\/em> which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo.<\/p>\nMany of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle<\/em>: The Thieving Magpie<\/em> (after Rossini’s opera), Bird as Prophet<\/em> (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher<\/em> (a character in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance<\/em> (after The Dells’ song, although it is widely thought it was titled after the Beach Boys tune), Norwegian Wood<\/em> (after The Beatles’ song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun <\/em>(the first part being the title of a song by Nat King Cole).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bibliography: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. 1Q84 Haruki Murakami (in Japanese: \u6751\u4e0a \u6625\u6a39) is a highly regarded and popular modern Japanese writer and translator. Goodreads describes his work as ‘easily accessible, yet profoundly complex’. That is a considerable understatement on so many levels. He can be located on Facebook at: Murakami on Facebook. On the internets! … Continue reading Haruki Murakami<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"1","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"3","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaoL7Z-3g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1314,"url":"http:\/\/www.dajuroka.com\/blog\/?page_id=1314","url_meta":{"origin":202,"position":0},"title":"Fiction I.","date":"June 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Intervene by Guy Lane Invisible by James Patterson 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":192,"url":"http:\/\/www.dajuroka.com\/blog\/?page_id=192","url_meta":{"origin":202,"position":1},"title":"Authors M.","date":"October 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Authors in Literature Maas, Sarah J. 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