Novelist as a Vocation

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An exploration of a writer's life from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles.

'You end this collection...vowing to never let life, or writing, get so complicated again' Guardian

Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his beautifully surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing.

In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians.

'Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers' New York Times Book Review

'A fascinating glimpse of the peculiar writerly life' Sunday Times

** A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

08. November 2022

Sprache

englisch

Dateigröße

1,20 MB

Autor/Autorin

Haruki Murakami

Übersetzung

Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen

Verlag/Hersteller

Random House

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mit Adobe-DRM-Kopierschutz

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Produktart

EBOOK

Dateiformat

EPUB

ISBN

9781473547315

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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami (Author)

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

Philip Gabriel (Translator)

Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated many novels and short stories by the writer Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi's Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

Ted Goossen (Translator)

Theodore (Ted) Goossen has translated the work

of many Japanese writers, most notably Naoya

Shiga, Haruki Murakami, and Hiromi Kawakami.

He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese

Short Stories (1997) and the co-editor and founder, with Motoyuki Shibata, of the annual

literary journal Monkey Business (now Monkey:

new writing from Japan), which, since 2011, has

introduced a new generation of Japanese writers to English-speaking readers. Essays and stories by, as well as interviews with, Murakami are a staple of every issue.

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