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Murakami Omnibus: " A Wild Sheep Chase " , " Dance Dance Dance "
"A Wild Sheep Chase" - His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate...more
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So Goodreads lists _one_ Murakami book? WTF??? Well, this is a good one (two) to have, but geez. He's one of my favorite authors; I think I have only not gotten around to reading his book on running. I read Wild Sheep Chase when I was looking for books on Hokkaido, prior to moving there. I found it in a library search with Hokkaido as a keyword. Turns out, although they had eight million copies of it, I still had to wait months on a list to get it, and I think had to move to Japan before I got i...more
very specific style of writing and the ending is unexpected and great!
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классная книга! с нее началась моя любовь к мураками!
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Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex." Critics suggest his work draws from film noir and contains elements of magical realism.
Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music ...more
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“There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councilors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.”
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“It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will never be able to explain to you the form of Will... My explanation would only show the correlation between myself and that Will by means of a correlation on the verbal level. The negation of cognition thus correlates to the negation of language. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; your chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence.”
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