To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the sister-city arrangement between Cologne, Germany and Kyōto, the city of Haruki Murakami’s birth, the city of Cologne opened an exhibition in collaboration with Kat Menschik, Murakami’s illustrator.
Menschik illustrated several of Murakami’s short stories, published in various countries such as Germany, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands, and is currently working on new illustrations for Murakami’s story 『ふしぎな図書館』 (“The Mysterious Library”), to be published in German language in Fall 2013.
The exhibition is open until July 6th and features illustrations from the Murakami story Sleep as well as his Bakery Attack series (among other Menschik works).
Where? — Kölner Zentralbibliothek
How much? — Free!
lamp-lighter replied to your post: A request for Norwegian followers.
are you gonna try to put sputnik sweetheart in space
Maybe Chris Hadfield will do us the favor.
A request for Norwegian followers.
After we posted a photo of a copy of Kafka on the Shore “on the shore” one of our followers pointed out that it would be fun to see a copy of Norwegian Wood in a Norwegian wood.
Since neither of us lives in Norway, we’re officially requesting our followers who do to undertake this task. Grab your copy, go for a hike and snap some pictures. If someone’s actually awesome enough to do this, please submit your photo via email, Facebook or Tumblr’s submission feature (which is, I’m afraid, pretty unstable at times, though).
- mi
/edit: First submissions are here, awesome!! (1) (2)
Keep it coming, guys!
Strathfield Symphony Orchestra to give “Murakami Music” clasical concert in Sydney, Australia on June 22nd 2013!
The Orchestra’s manager submitted this message:
Strathfield Symphony Orchestra will explore the fantastical worlds of Haruki Murakami, described by The Guardian as “among the world’s greatest living novelists”, in a concert on 22 June 2013 at 7pm at Marrickville Town Hall, Sydney, Australia
Murakami uses music as an integral part of his novels. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle starts with the overture to The Thieving Magpie by Rossini, setting the tone, if not the pace, for the entire book. The orchestra next undertakes Janacek’s Sinfonietta which appears all the way through 1Q84, a theme or leitmotiv to weave around his parallel worlds. Rarely heard live because of its massive brass requirements – no less than 4 horns, 12 trumpets, 2 bass trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba and 2 tenor tubas – this is a challenge that could not be resisted by the Strathfield Symphony. And finally in Norwegian Wood, the novel that launched him to fame in Japan, Murakami references Brahms’ monumental Fourth Symphony. This magnificent piece brings the concert to an end.
Our Japanese born Chief Conductor and Music Director, Sadaharu Muramatsu, brings an East/West sensibility to match Murakami’s. Don’t miss it.
Tickets can be bought here: Click.
You’re just starting out and I shouldn’t lay all this depressing stuff on you. You’ve already decided what you’re going to do, and all that’s left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it’s your life. Basically, you have to go with what you think is right.Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn’t going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Barn Burning, The Elephant Vanishes
Kafka on the Shore, Mr Nakata
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain, and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon. It - or they - are real moons.Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
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Kafka on the Shore on the shore
