The best book of Haruki Murakami is determined by each reader individually. He is an acting classic, and each of his creations is unique in its own way. Fans of mysticism will like the novel "Sheep Hunting", where the paranormal essence of the "sheep", dwelling in people, destroys their identities. In readership reviews of the American edition, Haruki called as much as the "mythmaker of the millennium."
Fantasy lovers will love "Wonderland without brakes ...", where the reader will meet with the city of captives and a hero with unusual abilities. Rebels and people who prefer to "go against the tide" will choose the novel "Norwegian Forest". The latest novel marked the author's fame in Japan and personal financial status. After all, the circulation of the publication amounted to 2 million copies! Reader reviews mark this book as the most realistic among all the works of its authorship.
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The best book by Haruki Murakami, according to the New York Times, is the Kafka on the Beach fantasy novel, which tells of the adventures and emotional experiences of 15-year-old Tamura who left home. Readers define the meaning of this book as a saga of loneliness. The spiritual loneliness of a person is often far-fetched. So Tamur comes up with a like-minded person - Crow, and in any woman subconsciously searches for a dead mother or a like-minded sister (which he did not have). In fact, as those who read the novel note, this feeling is subjective. In reality, a lonely person should pay more attention to bright people whom he meets in life.
According to Russian publishers, Murakami’s palm belongs to the best-selling three-volume novel, “Thousand, seventy-eighty-four.” Many social problems of the 21st century are reflected in this work .. "The best book of Haruki Murakami is the one that brought the greatest revenue!" - Book dealers will say, and in their own way they will also be right.
Loyal connoisseurs of his work, as is customary in their midst, will prefer the author’s last, sensational novel “Colorless Tskuru Tazaki and the Years of His Wanderings”, about re-evaluating his personality as a 36-year-old engineer, overcoming a midlife crisis. They will also be joined by the age category of readers, arguing that the best book by Haruki Murakami is precisely this novel.
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There will also be such readers who would prefer the novel “Chronicles of the Clockwork Bird” to all the author’s works, telling about the search for his own “I” by the former clerk of the law firm Toru Okada and his restoration of his own destroyed world.
People are attracted to the book by the ability of the protagonist to “go beyond,” to look at his being from a different angle.
It is noteworthy that almost all readers of his novels are distinguished by the ease and imagery of the author's style of the writer. It's really hard to tear yourself away from his books.
Literary scholars know that Haruki Murakami wrote the best books very dynamically. Reader reviews support the works of this author, written everywhere where he lived and worked:
- in the Tokyo area of Kokubunji;
- while living in Europe (in Italy, Greece, Britain);
- in the United States (in the state of New Jersey, and then in California);
- returning home.
The beginning of creativity Murakami. Signed Books
Millions of readers in the world are devoted connoisseurs of his work. Although there are those who are not impressed by his special Eastern logic. The writer Haruki Murakami became completely unique. This happened on a hunch. He, a thirty-year-old boy who was fond of jazz and a marathon, somehow playing baseball, suddenly felt a vocation - to write prose. I felt the urge to create clearly and motivatingly. That is what prompted him to write. The first work of the Japanese, the novel “Listen to the song of the wind”, was published and awarded a literary prize. This was followed by the novel “Pinball 1973”. However, Murakami himself estimates these two works as a “test of the pen”. The author considers the novel “Sheep Hunting” the first creative success. According to readers, the author managed to create an atmosphere of unpredictability of the plot in the novel.
The very name of the book in the context of Japanese morphology contains an atypical moment: nouns in the Land of the Rising Sun are extremely rarely used in the plural. The fact that the word "sheep" is used, and not "sheep", for the Japanese already means uncertainty, the unknown consequences.
In America, where he was invited to Princeton University (American Center for the Study of Foreign Cultures and Literature), the writer felt the need to write about Japan. Indeed, the fate of the creators is paradoxical. While in Japan, he sensitively followed the culture of the West, and having left for the West, he began to write about his homeland.
Beyond the Atlantic, his transition to a qualitatively new stage of creativity took place. The basis for this was the writer’s new vision of his native Japanese realities - through the eyes of a Westerner. Although, on the other hand, the writer was comfortable in the United States. He worked a lot on the university field, becoming an associate professor at Princeton University. His works come out in millions of copies.
Japan's best writer returns
However, a year after writing the Clockwork Bird Chronicles, in 1995, the writer suddenly returns to Japan. Obviously, the heart of the writer, the grandson of a Buddhist priest and the son of a philologist, responded in such a way to the inhuman sarin attack of the Aum Shinrike criminal sect in the Tokyo subway and to an earthquake that almost destroyed Kobe’s childhood town (Khego Prefecture).
The writer decided to live in Japan, and he settled in Tokyo in 1996. The American experience of publicity has made it possible to become the host of sharp journalistic television programs by Haruki Murakami. He writes his famous “Underground” - collected interviews of more than 70 people injured at the hands of fanatics and killers in the subway. Reviews on the works of this author of a documentary nature (he engaged in prose for the grudge of the day) were at that time the most numerous. Readers noted that the Murakami documentary is as versatile and deep as the Murakami novelist ...
His work on television in the 90s made him one of the most popular people in his country. In 2001, he created the highly popular in Japan storybook Radio Murakami, written in the style of a frank and warm conversation with the reader.
At home, Western (primarily American) classics - the works of Raymond Carver, Francis Fitzgerald, John Irving - are translated into Japanese by Haruki Murakami. Book reviews, leading the international ratings of classical literature written by Muraki, become for millions of Japanese a guide to the world of books. For example, the circulation “The Catcher in the Rye” in his translation sold out in Japan no worse than any bestseller.
The literary popularizing work of the classic is invariably in the center of attention of the readership of Japan. Many letters are written to him, and he, forced to keep a secretary to sort them, answers them whenever possible.
Instead of a conclusion. Murakami develops postmodern
However, at the beginning of the XXI century, working mainly in the documentary genre, the classic did not move away from artistic prose, from the postmodern style. Just took a break. Connoisseurs of his work were waiting ... And they were not mistaken. Murakami as the creator of novels is changing continuously and conceptually. It seems that his creativity with age, like good wine, is only enriched.
Since 2008, he has been working on an innovative novel about our semi-virtual world. The idea of ​​“absorbing all the chaos” of our life and showing how it develops is embodied in the trilogy “Thousand and seventy-eighty-four.” As always convincing in an attempt to comprehend the laws of the ephemeral reality of Haruki Murakami. Reviews on the writer's works have never been so enthusiastic. The very first edition of the first part of the trilogy was sold out in just 9 hours! The topic of the search for psychological guidelines was in demand in the cosmopolitan world of blurred moral, social, and spiritual values.
And in 2013, the reading public again bought up the circulation, but for the next novel, Colorless Tskuru Tazaki and the Years of His Wanderings.
What is his creative secret? When reporters once again ask him this question, Haruki Murakami, once again, smiling, replies: “Well, of course, in jazz!” (It is well known that he loves and constantly listens to this music). And then the master, pausing, adds: “If it weren’t for him, maybe I wouldn’t have written anything ...”