No Place I Was Meant to Be:...Short Fiction of Haruki Murakami

• Published in: World literature today p. 87-94
• Main Author: Loughman, Celeste
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.1997
• Subjects: Authors, Japanese; Characters and characteristics in literature; Culture in literature; Depersonalization; Ego (Psychology) in literature; Fiction, Themes, motives; Japanese literature; Mind and body in literature; Murakami, Haruki; Object (Philosophy); Self; Short stories; Subject (Philosophy); Women in literature; Women, Japan

The short fiction of Haruki Murakami--"arguably Japan's most popular novelist" (WORLD LITERATURE TODAY)--is analyzed. "The subject-object division in ego consciousness" expressed throughout Murakami's works, including the collections THE ELEPHANT VANISHES, HARD-BOILED W...