Modernity? Myth? The Unconscious? Japanese Orpheus? How do all these things go together? I promise to deliver answers to these questions, but in doing so, I may have to lengthen the title of my paper. I suppose that I have inherited Murakami’s habit for long ridiculous titles. Trust me, the titles sound just as ridiculous in Japanese as they do in English. Or the short story with one of his longest titles, “Airplane – or How he Talked to Himself as if Reading Poetry.” Hitsuji o meguru booken (A Wild Sheep Chase) The novel sekai no owari to haadoboirudo wandarando (Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World) Haruki Murakami, or in Japanese Murakami Haruki, is a living, contemporary Japanese novelist. Whenever you guys get time, please take a look and tell me what you think: This damn thesis was a lot of work, and now I'm finished.

I know that only a few people were able to come (sorry I couldn't do likewise), but here is the script.

This is the presentation I gave at the symposium.

The dancing dwarf murakami pdf