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{{quote box|[[File:murakami-haruki_7286.jpg|frame]]}} Most authors don't write simultaneous futuristic thrillers and pastoral fantasies about people with slashed eyes. Most authors don't write about chains of events set off by a missing cat. Most authors don't write about 15 year-old Oedipuses.
 
Most authors are not '''Haruki Murakami'''.
 
Murakami's works include twelve novels, dozens of short stories, an autobiography, and a non-fiction book of essays and interviews exploring a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway:Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway|terrorist attack on Tokyo's subways that occurred in 1995.]] He achieved literary super-stardom in Japan with the publication of ''[[Norwegian Wood (Literature)|Norwegian Wood]]'', but opinion is very much divided among the Japanese literary community whether he is a genius or a purveyor of somewhat odd popular fiction. His fans say, [[Take a Third Option|why not both?]]
 
Murakami's fiction often concerns dreams, sex, violence, the inexplicable, loneliness, parallel worlds, and cats.▼
 
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== Fiction: ==
 
 
'''Novels:'''
* The "Trilogy of the Rat"
** ''Hear the Wind Sing''
** ''Pinball, 1973''
** ''[[A Wild Sheep Chase (Literature)|A Wild Sheep Chase]]''
* ''[[Hard -Boiled Wonderland and Thethe End of Thethe World (Literature)|Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World]]''
* ''[[Norwegian Wood (Literature)|Norwegian Wood]]''
* ''Dance Dance Dance''
* ''South of the Border, West of the Sun''
* ''[[The Wind -Up Bird Chronicle (Literature)|The Wind Up Bird Chronicle]]''
* ''[[Sputnik Sweetheart (Literature)|Sputnik Sweetheart]]''
* ''[[Kafka On the Shore (Literature)|Kafka Onon the Shore]]''
* ''[[After Dark (Literature)|After Dark]]''
* ''[[One Q Eighty Four (Literature)1Q84|One Q Eighty Four]]''
 
'''Short story collections:'''
* ''The Elephant Vanishes''
* ''[[After the Quake (Literature)|After the Quake]]''
* ''Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman''
* ''Let's Meet in a Dream'' (in collaboration with [[Shigesato Itoi]])
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* ''What I Talk About When I Talk About Running''
 
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▲Murakami's fiction often concerns dreams, sex, violence, the inexplicable, loneliness, parallel worlds, and cats.
 
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=== His work in general and Murakami himself provide examples of: ===
 
* [[Amnesiac Lover]]: The narrator imagines that he and his dream girl are actually both examples of this in "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning".
* [[Author Appeal]]:
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* [[Magical Realism]]: And how!
* [[Mind Screw]]: In almost every single book.
* [[Nameless Narrative]]: ''[[A Wild Sheep Chase (Literature)|A Wild Sheep Chase]]'' and ''[[Hard -Boiled Wonderland and Thethe End of Thethe World (Literature)|Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World]]''.
* [[No Export for You]]: ''Hear the Wind Sing'' and ''Pinball, 1973'' have never been published outside of Japan (with the odd exception of Thailand), as Murakami is [[Old Shame|not anxious for a wider audience to find his earliest work]]. Translations into English have been published for students of English in Japan, [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|and can be found here and there on the internet.]].
* [[Old Shame]]: ''Hear the Wind Sing'' and ''Pinball, 1973''.
* [[Trilogy Creep]]: ''Dance Dance Dance'' to the "Trilogy of the Rat".
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: ''[[Hard -Boiled Wonderland and Thethe End of Thethe World (Literature)|Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World]]'', ''[[Kafka On the Shore (Literature)|Kafka Onon the Shore]]'', ''[[One Q Eighty Four (Literature)1Q84|One Q Eighty Four]]''.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]
 
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