Matthew Strecher

Autore di Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

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Matthew C. Strecher is Associate Professor of English and Japanese Literature at Toyo University, Japan. He has previously published one book on Murakami and numerous articles on modern Japanese literature

Comprende i nomi: Matthew Strecher, Matthew C. Strecher, Matthew Carl Strecher, Matthew Carl Strecher

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Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) (2002) 109 copie

The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami (2014) 68 copie

Dances With Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese… (2002) 9 copie

Haruki Murakami Challenging Authors (2016) 1 copia

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The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami di Matthew Carl Strecher

Dr. Strecher specializes in Japanese literature and culture, and has been a fan of Haruki Murakami since he started publishing in Japan. This book of literature criticism can sometimes be slow for non-lit crit readers because of all the theoretical underpinnings which are explored in order to get to the meat of Murakami's writing.

Once the book got to "real-world" examples from Murakami's work, I found it to be interesting and thought-provoking. It surprised me to know that what I had intuitively thought while reading Murakami, is what Stretcher also thinks.

I do recommend this book to anyone who reads Haruki Murakami because it does begin to explain what is going on beneath the surface. There's an entire chapter devoted to Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.… (altro)

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AuntieClio | Mar 22, 2015 |