Azul casi transparente

ryū murakami jorge garcía berlanga

Los protagonistas de esta novela, chicos y chicas en su mayoría jovencísimos, viven cerca de una base norteamericana, consumiendo toda clase de drogas, yendo a conciertos de rock, organizando orgías para los soldados yanquis, todo ello sin aparente pasión ni placer. Con emblemática pasividad, se deslizan hacia la autodestrucción, como resultado no sólo de su situación presente, sino de su futuro bloqueado.

Esta primera novela de un estudiante japonés de veinticuatro años fue galardonada con el prestigioso premio Akutagawa. En seis meses se vendieron un millón y medio de ejemplares y el libro desencadenó pasiones. La crítica japonesa habló de "sensibilidad revolucionaria", de "mirada como el zoom de una cámara", de "filtro de lucidez, a través del cual la violencia y el erotismo más crudo adquieren una extraña pureza". Aunque también se acusó a Murakami de cultivar sistemáticamente la pornografía y la brutalidad. En los Estados Unidos, la revista Newsweek la recomendó como "una mezcla de "La naranja mecánica", de Burgess, y "El extranjero", de Camus".

Genres fictionjapanjapanese literaturecontemporaryhorrorasianovelsliteratureclassicsasian literature

144 pages, Paperback

First published July 9,1976

Literary awards

akutagawa prize 芥川龍之介賞,

Places

japan,

This edition

Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Published: April 18, 2006 by Anagrama
ISBN: 9788433914798
ASIN: 8433914790
Language: Spanish; Castilian

About the author

ryū murakami

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.