![]() ![]() ![]() "There's a long tradition in modern Japanese literature of the autobiographical, so-called I-novel, the idea that sincerity lies in honestly and openly writing about your life, making a kind of self-confession. Fiction writing is partly the process of clarifying what lies within you. Through these steps, I gain a deeper understanding of the meaning behind the experience. "So I reshape them over and over and fictionalize them, to the point where, in some cases, you can't detect what they were modeled after. "In this book, I wanted to try pursuing a 'first person singular' format, but I don't like relating my experiences just the way they are," Murakami tells me in an email interview. ![]() You get drawn into the spiral, and soon you're in that strange world where many of his stories exist, a place full of his favorite things (jazz, baseball, the Beatles, though surprisingly few cats this time) and yet unmistakably odd, existing at a slight, unexplained angle to reality. The stories in Haruki Murakami's new collection, First Person Singular, have a sort of fractal nature - you're reading a story by a middle-aged Japanese man in which a middle-aged Japanese man is telling you a story (and sometimes that story involves him telling other stories). ![]() Haruki Murakami's new story collection is First Person Singular. ![]()
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