Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami est un écrivain japonais contemporain. Auteur de romans à succès, mais aussi de nouvelles et d'essais, Murakami a reçu une douzaine de prix et autres distinctions. Traduit en cinquante langues et édité à des millions d'exemplaires, il est un des auteurs japonais contemporains les plus lus au monde.
Murakami est également reconnu au Japon comme traducteur de l'anglais en japonais , et comme journaliste-essayiste .
Revendiquant des influences allant de Raymond Chandler à Kurt Vonnegut en passant par Richard Brautigan et Franz Kafka, Murakami est rapproché de la littérature postmoderniste. Ses récits sont appréciés pour leur forme de réalisme magique qui voit la quête picaresque se teinter de romantisme ou de surréalisme, et l'enquête policière flirter avec le fantastique ou la science-fiction ; y affleurent la poésie et l'humour, malgré la dimension mélancolique de leurs narrateurs qui évoquent obliquement des thèmes existentiels tels que la solitude, l'incommunicabilité et l'aliénation au sein de la postmodernité des sociétés capitalistes. Wikipedia

Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Kafka on the Shore
“Probably."
"Again with the probablys."
"A world full of probablys," she said.”
Haruki Murakami livre South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.”
IQ84 (2009-2010)
Variante: I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1
“If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”
Haruki Murakami livre After Dark
Source: After Dark
Haruki Murakami livre The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami livre A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)
Contexte: I watched an old American submarine movie on television. The creaking plot had the captain and first officer constantly at each other’s throat. The submarine was a fossil, and one guy had claustrophobia. But all that didn’t stop everything from working out well in the end. It was an everything-works-out-in-the-end-so-maybe-war’s-not-so-bad-after-all sort of film. One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami livre Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.”
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”
Haruki Murakami livre The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami livre La Ballade de l'impossible
Source: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami livre The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami livre South of the Border, West of the Sun
Variante: People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.”
Haruki Murakami livre La Ballade de l'impossible
Source: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“I’m not very good at giving anyone a clear no.”
Haruki Murakami livre The Strange Library
Source: The Strange Library
Haruki Murakami livre Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami livre The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.”
Haruki Murakami livre The Elephant Vanishes
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami livre Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.”
Haruki Murakami livre South of the Border, West of the Sun
Variante: What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?”
Haruki Murakami livre The Elephant Vanishes
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami livre A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 15, The Song Is Over
“I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.”
Haruki Murakami livre What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running