1st Ed Haruki Murakami After the Quake Obi 2000 Japanese Hardcover

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Murakami's influential authors and works

Murakami cites Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Raymond Chandler as writers who have been particularly influential on him. Other authors include Franz Kafka and Dostoevsky. "He listed Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and Chandler's The Long Goodbye as "the most important books I have ever encountered in my life. In a conversation with a reporter about "1Q84" in the Yomiuri Shimbun, he revealed that he was influenced by the late Wittgenstein's concept of "private language.

In February 2000, it was published by Shinchosha. It contains 5 short stories serialized in "Shincho" with a subtitle "after the earthquake" and 1 short strokes written down. In February 2002 it was translated into a bunko paper as a Shincho Bunko.

To the cover pages, back cover, and door paintings of "Takeshi Kitawaki" "Airport" (1937) was used. Also the illustration attached to the title of each short story is the work of Kitawaki. "Airport" was used as the cover even when it was made into a paperback. Murakami said that "I was very attracted" when I saw a feature exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kitawaki, held in 1997 . In addition, the current Shincho Bunko version uses the same one as the English translation version (an illustration in which three frogs stand side by side).

All the characters in this book are indirectly involved in the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake that occurred in January 1995. In addition, Murakami also touched on the relationship with the sarin subway affair of the Aum Shinrikyo caused by Aum Shinrikyo in March of the same year in the "Introduction", and in this short collection, the "overwhelming violence of certain kind" It is said that she is drawn.

1 UFO descends in Kushiro "Shincho" August 1999 UFO in Kushiro

(The New Yorker. March 19, 2001)

2 Landscape with Flatiron (Shincho, September 1999)

(Ploughshares. September 22, 2002)

3 All God's Children Can Dance (Shincho. October, 1999)

(Harper's. October, 2001)

4 Thailand (Shincho, November 1999) Thailand

(Granta. July 7, 2001)

5 Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Shincho, December 1999 (Shincho. December, 1999)

(GQ. June, 2002)

6 Honey Pie, written by Honey Pie (The New Yorker. August 20, 2001)

(The New Yorker. August 20 & August 27, 2001)