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راننده ی تاکسی خون آشام
شهر او
جشنواره ی شیر دریایی
درخت بید کور و دختر خفته
دختری از ایپانما، 1982/1963
دومین حمله به نانوایی
آینه

Murakami. Short stories.

That should be enough to either send you directly to Barnes and Noble today or to make you run away in horror.

You love him or you don’t.

He is definitely not for all tastes.

If you are still scratching your head, I will add: Twilight Zone. But a deeply thoughtful Twilight Zone. Like it had been written by Dostoevsky.

I am in the love-Murakami group. I never read books this slowly. I started it sometime this summer and here I am, in September, just now finishing it. Sadly. Did not want to finish it.

This collection of 24 short stories written by Nobel hopeful but still waiting Haruki Murakami is a pleasure to read. That being said, it pales in comparison to his longer pieces of fiction like Kafka on the Shore or my favourite, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. That being said, it is always a rich pleasure to delve into the worlds that Murakami imagines with a tinge of melancholy and a little dab of irony and at least a surprise or two. Well worth reading if you enjoyed his novels.


Fino's Murakami Reviews - Novels
Hear the Wind Sing (1979/1987-2015)
Pinball, 1973 (1980/1985-2015)
A Wild Sheep Chase (1982/1989)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985/1991)
Norwegian Wood (1987/1989-2000)
Dance Dance Dance (1988/1994)
South of the Border, West of the Sun (1992/2000)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995/1997)
Sputnik Sweetheart (1999/2001)
Kafka on the Shore (2002/2005)
After Dark (2004/2007)
1Q84 (2010/2011)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013/2014)
Killing Commendatore (2017/2018)

Fino's Murakami Reviews - Short Story Collections and Misc
The Elephant Vanishes (1993)
After the Quake (2000/2002)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2006)
Men Without Women (2014/2017)
First Person Singular (2020/2021)
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007/2008)

اولین کتابی که از موراکامی خوندم. کتاب بدی نیست، ولی اگه قبلش با غول های رئالیسم جادویی و سوررئال مثل مارکز و بورخس و کافکا و ساراماگو آشنا باشید و آثارشون رو خونده باشید، دیگه موراکامی خیلی معمولی به نظرتون میاد.
ولی بی صبرانه منتظرم "کافکا بر کرانه" اش برسه به دستم و بخونمش.

So it turns out an animated adaptation of Murakami’s short stories just came out in theaters, watch the trailer for Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman here. I’m so excited because like, look at this:
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So the film is a straight-through story that adapts six different Murakami stories from across three of his collections (including the titular Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman) and is set following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Of the stories being told is this little gem from After the Quake:
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So yes, I do want to see the frog man fight to save the world.

I’m always a fan of Murakami. His style of writing, there’s something so unique and couldn’t be described by words if you really immerse yourself in his stories.

My close friends would know that I really love his books! They say that I love to read deep stuff. Indeed it is true!

While I was reading this book, somehow it acted like a revelation to me (as far as I can remember his other books that I have read) that it is the reality of Japanese culture, lifestyle as well as the blend of Murakami’s own reality that he tried to convey— the secret affair, sex, suicidal ideation, isolation, and loneliness. It was bizarre.

However, I didn’t really enjoy this book due to the heaviness of surreal reality in the stories. It disturbed me. The short stories are also bland. But still, I enjoy his writing.

Only Murakami can write a poignant story about a monkey stealing people's names.

I concur with Goodreaders who've given this collection otherwise mediocre reviews that with the exception of "Birthday Girl" in the beginning, the most complete and fulfilling stories are all lumped right at the end. "Chance Traveler," "The Kidney Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day," and "A Shinagawa Monkey" are excellent, especially if you're as disheartened by the rest of the collection as I was.

I'm surprised that I didn't really like the rest of the collection. Here are the reasons why I'm surprised:

1.) Murakami's often delightfully bizarre and his story's usually enough to carry me through his books. See: Kafka on the Shore.

2.) In general while reading, I rarely wonder "what's the point?" Because the feeling I'm left with at the end of an open-ended, seemingly unresolved story can be the author's "point" in writing it. I am not the sort of reader who needs some idea argued to give a piece of writing use. It's when I'm left at the end of a story with no lingering feeling about it that I start wondering what the point is. With this collection, I found myself immediately wondering "what's the point?" for the majority of the stories, because there was just no feeling on my part at their end. Not humor, not amusement, nothing. Just the passage of time.

Look: I'm counting "The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes" as one of the non-pointless stories in this collection, because it made me laugh out loud. And that's one of the goofiest, least consequential stories I've yet read (and I've read Miranda July's book). So I think I might be being a tad overgenerous because it's Murakami and I like him and there are about five stories here that are really, really good anyway, which is enough to merit a "liked it," right? Right?

3.5 stars
╰┈➤ ❝ We talked like two old friends who'd said goodbye long ago and who were now walking down two separate paths in life. It had been a long time since I'd spoken so openly, so honestly, to anybody, and we talked for a long, long time.''
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Fin novellesamling av Murris. Noen novella om apa som stjel navn, andre om baby kengurua og noen om sjefa som e fugla. Rare greier. Nån novelle e sikkelig bra, mens andre e litt mindre minneverdig. Fikk lyst å les Norwegian Wood - en av novellan i samlinga ble utvida til å bli den

"Sauce Ciego, Mujer Dormida" es una colección de 24 relatos cortos escritos que abarca más de dos décadas de la carrera de Haruki Murakami. Los cuentos exploran una variedad de temas, desde lo cotidiano hasta lo surreal, y presentan una gama de personajes enfrentando situaciones tanto ordinarias como extraordinarias. La colección se destaca por su habilidad para capturar momentos de la vida que, aunque aparentemente mundanos, están cargados de significado y emoción.

El título "Sauce Ciego, Mujer Dormida" es un símbolo de las percepciones distorsionadas y las realidades ocultas que los personajes enfrentan. A lo largo de la colección, Murakami utiliza una variedad de símbolos recurrentes: gatos, pozos, trenes y paisajes oníricos, todos ellos representando aspectos de la psique humana, el aislamiento y la búsqueda de sentido. Los sueños y las realidades paralelas son temas comunes que Murakami emplea para cuestionar la naturaleza de la realidad y la percepción.

Aunque muchos de los relatos de "Sauce Ciego, Mujer Dormida" fueron escritos en diferentes épocas, las temáticas universales que abordan continúan resonando en el mundo actual. Los cuentos exploran la soledad, la alienación, la pérdida y la búsqueda de identidad, cuestiones que son particularmente relevantes en la sociedad contemporánea, marcada por la desconexión y la incertidumbre. La capacidad de Murakami para capturar la fragilidad y la resiliencia humanas hace que sus historias sean profundamente conmovedoras y actuales.

Cada relato de la colección presenta a personajes únicos, pero todos ellos comparten una profundidad emocional y psicológica que los hace memorables. El narrador de "Sauce Ciego, Mujer Dormida" es un hombre que recuerda una experiencia pasada con un amigo enfermo, lo que desencadena una reflexión sobre la memoria y la percepción. Este personaje representa la melancolía y la introspección típicas de los protagonistas de Murakami.

Junpei, de la historia "El Séptimo Hombre", es un sobreviviente de un tsunami quien vive con un trauma que lo persigue, y su historia es una exploración de la culpa y el perdón. Es un retrato conmovedor de la lucha humana por encontrar paz y resolución. El narrador de "Acróbata de Avión" es un hombre que se encuentra con un extraño en un avión, lo que lleva a una conversación que cambia su perspectiva sobre la vida y el destino. Este personaje simboliza la curiosidad y la búsqueda de respuestas en lo desconocido.

A lo largo de los relatos, se puede observar el crecimiento de Murakami en términos de profundidad temática y complejidad narrativa. Desde los primeros relatos, que reflejan una simplicidad en la estructura y la exploración de la vida cotidiana, hasta los más recientes, que muestran una maestría en la creación de mundos oníricos y metafóricos, Murakami demuestra una maduración en su estilo y enfoque.

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I confess most of the stories didn't make any sense to me and this being my first Murakami, I felt a bit disappointed too. But was glad that I could finally finish reading something I had started. In that sense it was a breather of sorts.

I had heard a great deal about Murakami and I borrowed this book from my friend. Reading this book was such a great experience. The stories are so different from the work that I usually read and have a surreal dreamlike quality about them. I cannot help but feel that I may have not been able to comprehend some of the metaphors used. Nevertheless, I enjoyed most of the stories included in this book.

People are complex, emotions and human behavior might not follow logic always.

Beneath the façade of success, smartness, attractiveness a person might carry an emotional burden. Others look up to such a person, might be awestruck or jealous - but the person carries his burden alone. A smart, academically intelligent, good-at-sports woman can blame her gender for her problems. What can be more terrifying to a man, than his inner self! How can a person trapped in a wheelchair and have his life dictated by others cope! One can spend a greater part of his life carrying a heavy burden of guilt, fear and grief and finally attain salvation through an unlikely act. How fickle can fate be! How a chain of events can break the barriers between a brother and sister and bring them close once again.

I intend to read the stories once again, maybe a couple of years later. I might be able to look at them in a new light and glean some new insights.