海の向こうで戦争が始まる

by Ryū Murakami

Ryu Murakami, master groteska, vospevshij razocharovanie i bol' poteryannogo pokoleniya, sozdal novyj roman, obeschayuschij stat' legendarnym. "Vojna nachinaetsya za morem" - eto polnyj zhestokoj ironii gimn nigilizmu i samorazrusheniyu, kotorye ostayutsya edinstvennym spaseniem v beznadezhno pogryazshem v nasilii i zhestokosti mire Geroev terzaet postoyannyj strakh. Nochnye koshmary i boleznennye fantazii - ikh privychnye sputniki. V zapredel'noj toske chelovek vziraet na mir, kotoryj rushitsya na ego glazakh

Genres: Japan, Japanese Literature, France, Novels

150 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.

Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.

Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his blessing to adapt Coin Locker Babies. The screen play was worked on by director Jordan Galland. However, Miike could not raise funding for the project. An adaptation directed by Michele Civetta is currently in production.

Murakami has played drums for a rock group called Coelacanth and hosted a TV talk show.

Reviews

[Yuko · Rating 3 out of 5]

War is starting at the island at the other end of the ocean. But who are they fighting? The people are just self destructing. Is it despair?

[Santa Shakya · Rating 2 out of 5]

Feeling like throughout the pages I ve been diving in the ocean of blood, dirt and despair xx