What's your favourite novel by the greatest living writer /lit/?
>>24763180the one with a cat and spaghetti and he bangs a young chick
>>24763180Wind up birb, for the cosiness factor
>>24763183you need to be much more specific
>>24763180Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, no question. It's a minor masterpiece.
She doesn't have a novel, yet.
After DarkEasily the most kino of his novels, pure late night vibes.
>>24763261Is the queen working on a novel?
South of the Border, West of the SunThis man knows what it feels like to be obsessed about the what-if.
I am learning Japanese for Mishima and KanbunI've never read Murakami before so glad to hear he's worth reading
>>24763441Murakami is absolutely worth reading. He also has a big hand in his translations, so they're pretty solid at getting his intent across.
>>24763180Colorless Tsukuru TazakiMan, The City and its Uncertain Walls really let me down. I was hoping for something that added to Hardboiled Wonderland, but instead it just kind of redid a bunch of bits from other stories. The emotional core about shattering unforseeable closureless, and then rebuilding a comfy but superficially wasted life was great, but it's embedded in a sprawling mess of rehashed objects and bizarrely frequent and vapid and dreadful similes.
>>24763180Genuinely difficult for me to pick. I’ll shortlist it at Sputnik, South…West and Sheep Chase.
>>24763751As someone who didn’t enjoy hardboiled wonderland Im reading city and it’s uncertain walls at the moment and it’s made me want to go back and read it again. Ive liked what I read so far, feels like a second pass through a cycle a la Celtic myths or journey to the west as opposed to a sequel.
>>24763780Yeah it's definitely not a sequel. Which to me cheapens the angle on Hardboiled where the city was specific to him and feels like the eight-millionth time a Japanese writer has wanted to do a take on collective unconcious. I do feel it's bloated, and way too full of Murakami-isms I'm already kind of tired of, but I do think it's good in itself. If I could forget I read anything else by him I probably would have loved it.
>>24763261Gross.
>>24763180>by the greatest living writerHe's not, and I'm a Murakami fan.For me, he died just after he wrote Kafka on the Shore. Or maybe before he wrote Sputnik Sweetheart. No books ever came from him after that.
Where my hear the wind sing chads at. Simple but I love it. It's so cosy. I also forget the entire plot like a month after reading that series and get to experience it fresh whenever I come back to it
>>24764695>before he wrote Sputnik SweetheartLiterally my favourite. Feel like the degrees of separation between the narrator and the person who actually has the out of body experience really work. Generally I also prefer him in novella form. The stories feel a bit too on the nose, the longer stuff like Wind-up obviously feels weightier, but I'm there for the delivery of his one core metaphor, not for side helpings of war crimes or whatever
