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Jay Rubin

Born

in Washington, D.C., The United States

January 01, 1941

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Jay Rubin is an American academic and translator. He is most notable for being one of the main translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. He has also written a guide to Japanese, Making Sense of Japanese, and a biographical literary analysis of Murakami.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 1,179,704 ratings · 82,629 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	After the Quake 3.78 avg rating — 48,034 ratings — published 2000 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin (Editor, Translator), Haruki Murakami (Introduction), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 4.15 avg rating — 1,816 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words 3.84 avg rating — 1,797 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You 4.17 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sun Gods by Jay Rubin, Rakuko Sakai 3.89 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Japanese Writers 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alehouse #4 Poetry on Tap 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	村上春树和我 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alehouse No. 2 2008 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Be as vigilantly on guard against translating such a sentence into the passive voice as you would against committing murder.”
― Jay Rubin, Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You

tags: japanese, translation

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“The bones came jumbled together from the kitchen... there was no way of telling my parents from my Brothers and Sisters. I put them all in the same urn. Sometimes, late at night, I hold them in my hands and cry.”
― Jay Rubin, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

tags: atomic-bomb, death-of-a-loved-one, japan, nagasaki, nuclear-war

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“Aus irgendeinem Grund ist das, was mich berührt, immer etwas, das ich nicht verstanden habe.”
― Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words

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