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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: 4.02 · 721,016 ratings · 47,873 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words 3.82 avg rating — 1,553 ratings — published 2002 — 8 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 — 466 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin (Editor, Translator), Haruki Murakami (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 2018 — 3 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 3.95 avg rating — 111 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
	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
	Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State (1983) 4.40 avg rating — 5 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
	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
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	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 196,668 ratings — published 1994 — 149 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
	1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator) , Philip Gabriel (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 177,953 ratings — published 2009 — 41 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

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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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“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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“Sorrow never heals. We simply take comfort in the fact that our pain seems to fade.”
― Jay Rubin, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

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