Izanagiovský motiv v románech Haruki Murakamiho
The Izanagi Motive in Haruki Murakami's Novels

Author(s): Tomáš Jurkovič
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Japanese literature; Haruki Murakami; novels;
Summary/Abstract: Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is sometimes considered to be an entirely Western-literature-inspired author of “non-Japanese” texts. Such an assessment, however, needs to be rejected upon analysing Murakami’s fiction. The present study offers guidance into the colourful world of Murakami’s novels in chronological order. It presents them together in what we could call a meta-story, starting from the very beginning of Murakami’s writing and its sources of inspiration, and ending with Murakami’s first victory in dealing with his most important subject as an author – the dark sides of modern Japanese history.

• Details
• Contents