what can you tell me about Haruki Murakami?

Author of kitschy magical realism YA for girls you want to fuck in spite of their total lack of a personality

>>9911946
He looks like a teacher I once had.

One day when the students in his Japanese culture class managed to get him riled he burst out that Australia had no culture.

He was right but, what a cunt.

He writes YA but gets a free pass because of trendy magical realism

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His early work was actually kind of solid but he's become overblown as fuck.

He's also past the point of being completely normie-tier. I didn't realize until a few years ago that Barnes&Noble/etc have an entire row dedicated to him, more than any other Jap author (and plenty of respected American authors to boot).

>>9911967
then the fuckin nip can go back to his own fucking country then, can't he?

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Follow this and you get pretty much all his novels.

>>9911967
>he burst out that Australia had no culture

Dude, tell me about it.

>>9911967
>X country or place has no culture
These argument is only ever used by the most psuedo of pseudo intellectuals when they lack a real argument.

A people cannot exist without a culture, it is impossible.

>>9911966
I don't think I've ever wanted to fuck a girl because of her personality.

Terrible driver, will make peepee in your coke if given the chance

>>9912245
Have you ever heard of hyperbole?

>>9911946
I really like him. His early stuff was pretty fucking good and comfy.

I get the feeling that he'd be a pretty beloved cult writer in the vein of Bolaño if publishing houses didn't shove him down our throats 24/7.
>>9911966
His main audience consists of gloomyfags in my experience.

>>9911989
Care to give example where you see magic realism in his works?

>>9913240
Kafka on the Shore and Windup Bird Chronicles

>>9913520
Yes but what exactly in them.

>>9911946
good for 2-3 books

>>9911946
Japanese here.

This man, in my country he is nothing

>>9913700
I come into each one of these threads just to see this reply. I don't understand why I find it amusing.

>>9911946
His early books are pretty good. Bits and pieces of his later stuff are solid, but he's always a nice enough read.

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Can anyone here recommend me some better modern/current Japanese authors?