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Article: Only the lonely.(Haruki Murakami short story being adopted as Tony Takitani film)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Haruki Murakami, arguably Japan's preeminent contemporary novelist, who wrote the short story upon which the new film "Tony Takitani" is based, is a cartographer of human existence. He explores and maps the boundaries between the real and the fantastic, dreaming and wakefulness, memory and present experience, self and other, and, perhaps most distinctively, the more subtle boundary between solitude and loneliness.
In his novels that I have read--"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985); "Norwegian Wood" (1987), the novel that made him a literary celebrity in Japan; "The Windup Bird Chronicle" (1994-95); and "Kafka on the Shore" (2002)--his ...