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R.I.P. Ryū Murakami, 村上 龍, 19 February 1952–17 October 2026
Murakami's first short novel, pictured above, is structurally perfect. At least I consider it, alongside Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, to be structurally perfect, and this to be the result, in both cases, of a crystalline clarity of expression. The
... "it's hardly clear what good any novel can do for the poor, displaced people now picking their way through ... rubble." E. Frank, Stranger than Fiction, 2024, p. 303
This world, where a chicken could run without a head, where there was milk in the morning and frogs he could get to dance by holding their front feet—this world still preoccupied him.
All this time David was being clasped by strong warm hands. He didn't feel
the books were never meant to balance
I live in a house of chartered accountants, so I really felt the leaders of the minor parties were talking to me. Over the course of TVNZ's multiparty debate (link), which I didn't stay (I get enough of it at home), apart from jumping into the