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
“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
Haruki Murakami livre A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment”
Haruki Murakami livre A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 25, Transit Completed at Movie Theater, On to The Dolphin Hotel
Contexte: "Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment," she said, thrusting a skinny back of her hand before my eyes, "most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
Haruki Murakami livre Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami livre The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders
Contexte: Listen- God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like-they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American chomping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o - God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it.
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
Haruki Murakami livre La Ballade de l'impossible
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”
Haruki Murakami livre Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
Haruki Murakami livre Hear the Wind Sing
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Source: Kafka on the Shore
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 Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.”
Haruki Murakami livre La Ballade de l'impossible
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.”
Haruki Murakami livre Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?”
Haruki Murakami livre Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”
Haruki Murakami livre Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.”
Haruki Murakami livre Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami livre Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami livre The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The light of morning decomposes everything.”
Haruki Murakami livre A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami livre What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami livre Kafka sur le rivage
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami livre Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.”
Haruki Murakami livre After Dark
Source: After Dark