April 23, 2021
Ann Levin
AP – Haruki Murakami has a new collection of stories 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 encyclopedia 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; in