村上朝日堂是如何鍛鍊的

by Haruki Murakami, 安西水丸 (Illustrator), 村上春樹

소박한 문체와 정감 가는 일러스트로 꾸준한 사랑을 받아온 무라카미 하루키와 안자이 미즈마루의 에세이 시리즈가 '장수 고양이의 비밀'이라는 제목으로 다시 국내 독자들을 찾는다. 문학동네에서 '무라카미 하루키 에세이 걸작선'으로 출간한 <밸런타인데이의 무말랭이> <세일러복을 입은 연필> <쿨하고 와일드한 백일몽> 을 잇는 시리즈로, 1995년에서 1996년까지 「주간 아사히」에 연재된 에세이 60여 편을 모았다.

일상생활 속의 소소한 발견과 빛나는 위트는 물론, <노르웨이의 숲> 성공 이후 본격적으로 인기 작가 대열에 들어선 시기의 소회, 외국생활의 에피소드, 작가로서의 정체성과 출판업계의 현실에 대한 단상 등을 엿볼 수 있다.

336 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.

Reviews

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

不知不覺也讀過了村上大叔的幾本書, 但都不是小說類. 而是他的碎碎唸文集.
每次看時都有｢奇怪, 這位大叔平常腦袋裡盡裝些什麼啊?｣的感覺,
可是又禁不住地一路讀下去, 好奇妙啊!

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the articles are purely hilarious, but I am not as impressed as I was when I first read it.

[Xovee Xu · Rating 4 out of 5]

村上的文字和思维很容易辨识，生活中的小事，村上也写得很好

[Jia · Rating 3 out of 5]

一篇一篇有趣的小故事或觀點評論
但是看到一半就覺得有點厭煩
感覺村上先生還真是囉唆啊
看來這種文章還是比較適合以報紙專欄的形式出現
放在同一本書裡面 就有點膩了
最喜歡裡面關於貓咪的文章
但是關於貓咪生產的那一篇 我怎麼樣也不相信

[Sunny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Published in e-book recently (marketing tool for Murakami's new book?)
Serialized essays through one of Japanese news paper (magazine?) in 1997.
It's fun when you get to see 'personal' size of your favorite author. However, I didn't enjoy most of the topics. There's strange sexual culture underlining many of the stories- casual mention of womanizing (Murakami's partner, illustrator Mizumaru's). Mention to be funny? I didn't find funny at all. Wonder whether these pieces were produced under the social expectations (for example, newspaper essays should be like this...)

[toni · Rating 4 out of 5]

因為是雜誌的專欄文章，沒辦法每次讀太多。讀讀放放，沒想到今天竟然讀完了，不過是在7年後這樣。