You only hate him because he's popular, right, /lit/?

/lit/ hates nobody

/lit/ hates everybody

/lit/ only hates itself

this man, in my country, he is NOTHING

>>8699092
>muh end of history

>>8699092
dude spaghetti and cats lmao

>>8699169
and jazz

who is this gook

>>8699092
would fuck/10

>>8699094
>>8699096
>>8699099
I go through all three of these on an average day (as detailed in My Diary desu)

>>8699092
i dont hate him. ive read like 8 of his books and enjoyed most of them

>>8699196
I guess Murakami's really hot in a stern asian dad sort of way

people hate him here (imo) because his writing occupies the space between YA and 'grown up'/'serious' lit, so it's all kind of sweet and aimless with a bit of philosophical questioning mixed in. doesn't going into too much depth. in short he's not quite mcdonalds and not quite michelin starred.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that. he seems to know what he's doing.

>>8699723
>because his writing occupies the space between YA and 'grown up'/'serious' lit
How is he not YA?

>>8699739
surrealism / non-traditional story structures

>>8699092
that man, in my country....
he is nothing.

>>8699723
appropriate michelin stars are a marketing ploy, as are categories like 'YA', 'literary fiction' etc. Debord had a bit on how the fancy wine industry depends on the existence of a class of wine experts to lead the consumers along. the same is true for most fetishized upscale commodities, including text content, ie. ''literature''

>>8699751
delete this

>>8699751
sure, I can get behind you on that. I was just using the ranking system to illustrate my point that Murakami isn't easily categorized and that confuses people whose nature is to label things as either YA or /lit/ as if they're mutually exclusive.