Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. €17,95 View deals See features Haruki Murakami But, at the same time, in his stories he creates an emotion typical of youth and adolescence: new for neophytes and renewed for veterans. First person of singular seems like a stop in the way of its production, revives existence and literature without hiding the passage of time, the decrepitude and the withered. Likewise, Murakami reflects his noted experience for those who already know him and also for new readers who approach him for the first time. It only takes a bit of cunning to discern what is true from what belongs to the creator's imagination. Murakami writes with the gift of someone who works with talent and shows his work without ostentation. All peppered with the longing for youth, for the past that always comes back, experience or ingenuity. The topics he talks about border on the bland: like a song, a baseball team, a person who drives us crazy. There is certainly a nostalgic and hopeful tone. All of them have in common the love and admiration for the little things in life, the moments we live and the people we surround ourselves with. The simplicity of the moments to which Murakami gives fair value in the varied stories of his stories stands out. Try Kindle Unlimited for free: million books for you Poetic anthology of the Yukult Swallows of Tokyo.And that at the same time They bear witness to an apparently bland daily life that contains stories with which one can feel identified. Murakami subtly invites his reader, makes him participate in stories that speak in the first person. That is something that the writer plays with and has to bet on what each one decides to believe. However, it cannot be judged that what is read is something invented, testimony of a self, or that it is Murakami himself who is behind the story. The commitment of the book is clear: the singular narrator that guarantees a first-person experience. all with a signature Murakami twist.First person of singular What kind of work is it? The stories touch beautifully on love and loss, childhood and death. Others are set in adulthood-"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" and the title story, "First Person Singular." Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Haruki himself is present, as in "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection." Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream" and "On a Stone Pillow") are nostalgic looks back at youth. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator, a lonely man. Publisher: Bond Street Books (April 6, 2021)Ī riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.
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