Haruki Murakami interview (English). BBC 45' radio doc reveals writing methods.
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- In 2000 producer Matt Thompson travelled to Tokyo to interview the reclusive author Murakami for an extended BBC Radio 3 profile. The 45' documentary has been a fascinating source of inspiration for those who love his odd fables and want to find out something of the process behind them.
Publicity from original programme:
His books sell by the millions but traditionalists don’t care for his shallow and flashy protagonists who mimic the attitudes of Chandler’s hard boiled Philip Marlowe and find the answers in sex, men dressed as sheep, and bizarre lumber rooms of the subconcious. ‘The Wind up Bird Chronicle’ took Murakami’s dissaffected anti-hero into the unpopular territory of Japan’s past. ‘Underground’, Murakami’s account of the Tokyo Gas Attack, analysed how a guru hijacked ordinary people’s own stories and replaced them with fantasies, something he thinks society itself does. Can the virtuoso storyteller Murakami help readers find themselves? And why does he feel responsible for the dead people he has known? With Jungian Prof. Hayao Kawai, Kawasaki Kenko and Prof. Motoyuki Shibata.
Readers:
Hilary Neville-Towle
Nigel Acheson
Fixer in Tokyo:
Mai Nishiyama
Producer:
Matt Thompson
Loftus/Rockethouse Production for BBC Radio 3.
This programme is for strictly educational purposes only.
If I craving to read norvegian woods again ,that’s the sign I am getting into depression.
Same with Tsukuru Tazaki here
That book haunts me till this day.
😮 i always re read Norwegian woods when i am in depression too
Anything about Murakami draws me like a magnet. Can't have enough of his surreal long novels ... thank you for uploading this wonderful programme.
Same🥰
Exactly the same, can’t stop
I love these type of slightly old school bbc radio docs. Dunno what it is in particular, but just seemed like such class and quality
Am addicted to Murakami works. Kept pondering why. Must be the that he touches you somewhere down there in your subconsciousness, your suppressed feelings and emotions.
I am on the third book of 1Q84. It is a remarkable book, a dream and a document. A masterful construction.
I shivered when he spoke of Raymond Chandler... I had the exact same thought when I was living in Japan.
"He made me."
The documentary beautifully captures the quintessence of Haruki's art and craft.
Thank you for this...
A great show, thank you for the upload.
it is a brilliant release! I loved it so much! so real and captivating
Thank you for sharing !
“Doesn’t trust journalists *for some reason.*”… lol gee I wonder why not
thankful to hear him even a lil bit - hate the BBC super cut format though
thank you for posting
We hear Murakami speaking perfectly comprehensible English, then the interpreter track cuts over the top with the same words...
@@johnvienna3422 It says at the start that Murakami specifically asked that they do that. He didn't want his voice to be played a lot in the doc
Super cuts are such a disruption to the flow of the interview. So annoying and unnecessary.
The bombastic music that punctuates this interview is annoying.
Stop commenting about the voiceover, it’s already addressed in the intro sheez
I keep hating Murakami books then settling in to read the next one. I don't even understand it myself.
I always thought that at this time of my life this would happen or that would happen and none of it materialised,
More background music than the voice of the Author. BBC is as notorious as ever.
It was his wish to be so, as explained at the beginning of the talk. I, too wish I could hear the interview as is, but even so, I am grateful I could hear him originality at least this much.
BBC is fucking terrible.
love hearing from Murakami......but sure didn't need the music or sound effects..
I love the fake Japanese sound effects, I like women screaming guttural songs in the background too when they report on the Syria war
I really wanted to hear Murakami's voice, not someone talking over him. This was weird.
Any idea what book the passages are from? About the shadow
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, I believe
^^ can confirm, I’m currently reading that book
The voiceover was incredibly annoying and unnecessary.
Why are we whispering?
He thinks it's cool and sexy, big fool.
"he doesnt trust journalists for some reason" gee i wonder why. hmmmmmmm.
Hey sorry
You Ango-saxon people, always want the others to be brought down to something you're familiar with. I'm afraid Murakami is in no way familiar with whatever you might already be accustomed to, even less Chandler's paraphernalia: nothing to do with the West Coast's famous detective at all. This is very Eastern and... and familiar to us at the same time, for a very mysterious and universal reason. Guess which. Murakami is a great and... unique writer. The reasons are to me beyond any form of analytical scope, which makes Murakami even greater. There's a lot of rich Far-eastern Asian folks' tale-telling in his work all mixed up with his obvious thorough reading of so many Western writers -not only Chandler, mind you, far from it, from any narrow-minded literary microscope! - like Hemingway, the greats from Europe's XIXth century and the rest. Any extraordianry writer is an extraordinary reader.
Extra-ordinary meaning "out of the ordinary".
@@MrAllright2 Yes, that's what it means
this format is incredible annoying, I can't listen to this
This "profile" is awful. Thanks for trying, though. Disjointed and incoherent.