Haruki Murakami has a new collection of stories -
First Person Singular -told in the first person by an unnamed older man obsessed with baseball, music, and the porous borders between memory, reality and dreams.
He may describe himself as a "bland, run-of-the-mill guy, ” as in the story
Cream – about a young man’s encounter with an ageing mystic – but Murakami Man is more like a walking encyclopaedia who has a problem with women – mainly, that he can’t seem to get past their physical appearance.
Thus, in
On A Stone Pillow, we have his memories of a melancholy poet and her "shapely round breasts”; in