Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words

Jay Rubin explains how Murakami developed a distinctive new style in Japanese writing. In tracing the reclusive writer’s career, he draws on his own interviews with him, and observations gathered from ten years of collaborating with Murakami on translations of his works.

鲁宾是美国哈佛大学的日本文学教授，曾经为英语国家翻译过村上春树的《挪威的森林》、《奇鸟形状录》等作品。在本书中，作者更多地是以村上的作品为研究对象，从文学评论的高度阐述其创作背景和文本意义等内容，所以并不属于传统意义的传记，倒是多了些学术研究的色彩。