Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words

Informationen zum Autor Jay Rubin is the author of Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State and Making Sense of Japanese , and he edited Modern Japanese Writers for the Scribner Writers Series. He has translated into English two novels by the Japanese writer Soseki Natsume, and also Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and after the quake . Klappentext Jay Rubin explains how Murakami developed a distinctive new style in Japanese writing. In tracing the reclusive writer's career, he draws on his own interviews with him, and observations gathered from ten years of collaborating with Murakami on translations of his works. Zusammenfassung REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON 1Q84As 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jay Rubin, Rubin Jay
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.2005
• EAN: 9780099455448
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945544-8
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Murakami, Haruki : Erläuterungen zum Werk, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers