CHIN 2052 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Telephone Call, Hot Pot, Dont

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Parents taught japanese literature but influenced by western literature, music, culture. After university studies in law, drama: coffeehouse and jazz bar with wife. Short stories, novels since late 1970s (selections: 1981-86; hanalei bay, Success of hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world (1985) and. Norwegian wood (1987): intense media attention in japan fled to europe, decade at princeton u. Based in tokyo, often in hawaii (sighting?) Popularity: resonant with japanese, east asian, western youth. Characters reflect this reality: denounced as shallow, empty, rootless. Kenzaburo oe: murakami writes in japanese, but his writing isn"t realy. Japanese it can be read very naturally in new york (english idioms); Cult of murakami: wong kar-wai"s chungking express (1994), mainland. Chinese glam lit, internet fan fiction in taiwan. Later works = more socially engaged: the wind up bird chornicle, 1995 (manchukuo); underground, 1997-98 (tokyo gas attacks); after the quake, But all writings = reflective of contemporary japanese culture.

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