The Meeting of Haruki Murakami and Diverse Cultures ：Interpretations of Murakami’s Work around the World Edited by Hitoshi Ishida, Antonin Bechler (Seikyusha, January 2020)

Abstract

This book is comprised of a collection of papers from two international symposiums on Haruki Murakami. ​The papers were written by 22 scholars from Japan, France, England, Italy, the United States, and Taiwan. ​They adopt a variety of approaches to Murakami’s work, and what emerges is a phenomenon that changes in the context of different cultures. ​One of the features of the book is that many of its authors offer unexpected ways to link Haruki Murakami’s work with that of other Japanese writers. ​This feature encourages readers to revisit Murakami’s oeuvre and to discover new dimensions in it.