Murakami’s greatness as a novelist is incontestable. The result is a book that’s assured, candid and often - never meet your heroes, they say - deeply irritating. It blends writing advice and memoir, tracking his early triumphs - in typically magical Murakamian fashion, he won a prize for his first novel after submitting his only copy of the manuscript to the judges - through his years as an international star, his work translated into more than 50 languages, his betting odds for the Nobel Prize very short each October. Without advertising itself as such, it nevertheless keeps arriving, piecemeal: first a short, brilliant book about his habits as a daily runner, later a long essay about his father, most recently an illustrated compendium of his T-shirt collection.Īnd now he’s written “Novelist as a Vocation,” a reflection on his career. Since 2007, success as a novelist settled comfortably upon him, the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has, in his eccentric way, been writing an autobiography. NOVELIST AS A VOCATION, by Haruki Murakami | Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goosen
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