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Novelist as a Vocation Haruki Murakami

Novelist as a Vocation By Haruki Murakami

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

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Novelist as a Vocation Summary

Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity by Haruki Murakami

A unique look into the mind and craft of a master storyteller.

Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians.

Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing.

'The world's most popular cult novelist' Guardian

'A master storyteller' Sunday Times

'Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers' New York Times Book Review

Novelist as a Vocation Reviews

A master storyteller * Sunday Times *
One of the most influential novelists of his generation. * Observer *
It's safe to say there is no one like Murakami * Literary Review *
A true original * The Times *
Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers * New York Times Book Review *

About Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe.

Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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GOR012685735
9781911215387
1911215388
Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
2022-11-08
224
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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