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"Haruki Murakami Spain" Author: [Japanese] Chihiro Kosaka Series: Visiting Haruki Murakami
"Haruki Murakami Spain" Author: [Japanese] Chihiro Kosaka Series: Visiting Haruki Murakami
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
The fourth episode of the series "Visiting Haruki Murakami"
What kind of sparks will be created when Spain meets a great writer?
A brand new way to understand Murakami's literature!
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Experience the magic of Spanish in "Sputnik Lovers"
Experience Picasso's "Blue Period" in "Norwegian Wood"
Looking back at the pain of war in "Kafka on the Shore"
Listen to the wind on the Barcelona coast in "Hear the Wind Sing"
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Spain's fascinating culture attracts tourists from all over the world, and also attracts Haruki Murakami. He has loved Spanish culture since his youth and has incorporated this love into many of his works.
There is no doubt that this will be a lively and interesting journey through Murakami's literature, as well as a unique trip to Spain!
About the Author · · · · · ·
Tomohiro Kosaka, PhD in Literature from the University of Salamanca, is currently an associate professor of Spanish at Nanshan University. He specializes in modern Spanish drama, Spanish film and comparative literature. He is the author of "Garcia Lorca and Yukio Mishima - Two Legends of the 20th Century" and the translator of "Selected Modern Spanish Dramas".
Table of contents · · · · · ·
PART 1 Haruki Murakami's trip to Spain
1. Young Murakami | 010
2. Spain trip | 013
PART 2 Murakami's literary kaleidoscope
1. Murakami Literature in Spain | 022
2. Learn Spanish with Murakami | 030
3. Timely rain in the story | 035
4. A world where subject and object are one | 038
5. Spanish Music | 046
PART 3 Strolling in paintings and wandering in history
1. Blue Picasso | 056
2. The Persistence of Memory | 062
3. Scars and Rebirth | 070
PART 4 Film and Literature
1. Map of Tokyo Sound | 082
2. Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen | 086
3. In the Dark | 088
4. Five Deteriorations of the Celestial Beings | 091
5. Sputnik Lovers | 096
6. The encounter between film and literature | 099
7. Lonely City | 100
8. Loss and Regeneration | 104
9. After Dark | 106
10. Bloody Rose | 113
PART 5 The literary master’s love for Spain
1. Richer literature | 118
2. That touch of Spanish white | 122
3. Cities and Roads | 124
4. Beautiful Spanish | 133
5. Bullfighting | 137
6. Static Pain | 146
7. Impulsive Enthusiasm | 152
8. The Multifaceted Poet | 154
FINALE Literature dedicated to the dead
1. City by the Sea | 164
2. The magnetic field of language | 174
3. Everything is Poetry | 177
4. Literature dedicated to the dead | 183
APPENDIX Interview with the Spanish translator of Haruki Murakami's works | 190
Postscript | 196
References | 200