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Review: A new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami


Review: A new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami
ANN LEVIN, The Associated Press
April 5, 2021
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This cover image released by Knopf shows First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami. (Knopf via AP)AP
“First Person Singular,” by Haruki Murakami (Alfred A. Knopf)
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 aging 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. ....

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Haruki Murakami's First Person Singular: 'At his strongest he's like Kafka in Tokyo'


Review by Stephen Phelan
IF you were in your 20s in the 2000s, maybe you went through a Murakami phase. Having become a literary pop star in his native Japan a decade or so earlier, the author was deep into middle age when he broke through internationally, but his characters and readers tended to be much younger. Even in translation, his fiction seemed aligned to the drift of the post-college years, and attuned to the twentysomething’s half-formed sense of self.
Sex and music were more than incidental to his dreamy plotting, which made no distinction between the quotidian and supernatural. His heroes’ lives, and therefore yours, might equally be changed by an earthquake, a mysterious disappearance, or a gnomic encounter with a ghostly stranger. This reviewer ate up Murakami’s books like spaghetti in those days. Then he became boring, or I did. I outgrew him, or he aged into a wearying schtick. The spell really wore off circa 2011 with his interminable epic 1Q84 ....

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