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O posljednjoj Murakamijevoj knjizi (Bezbojni Cukuru Tazaki i njegove godine hodočašća):

Is the novel’s hero an adrift, feckless man in his mid-30s? (Yep.) Does he have a shrewd girl Friday who doubles as his romantic interest? (Of course; conveniently, she is a travel agent, adept at booking sudden international trips.) Does the story begin with the inexplicable disappearance of a person close to the narrator? (Not one person—four, and they vanish simultaneously.) Is there a metaphysical journey to an alternate plane of reality? (Sort of: the alternate reality is Finland.) Are there gratuitous references to Western novels, films, and popular culture? (Let’s see, Barry Manilow, Arthur Conan Doyle, the Pet Shop Boys, Aldous Huxley, Elvis Presley … affirmative.) Which eastern-European composer provides the soundtrack, and will enjoy skyrocketing CD sales in the months ahead—Bartók, Prokofiev, Smetana? (Liszt.) Are there ominous omens, signifying nothing; dreams that resist interpretation; cryptic mysteries that will never be resolved? (Check, check, and check.) Will this be the novel that finally delivers Murakami the Nobel Prize? (Doubtful, though Ladbrokes currently considers him the odds-on favorite, at 6 to 1.)

The mesmeric pull of Murakami’s fiction lies in this tension between the narrator’s perfectly ordinary existence and this shadow world, which might reside in our subconscious or even in an alternate universe, where we are free to enact our darkest, most violent, most perverse fantasies.

Murakami writes genre fiction—formulaic, conventional, with an emphasis on plot. But it is a genre that he has invented himself, drawing elements from fantasy, noir, horror, sci-fi, and the genre we call “literary fiction.”

Sve ovo iz: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/the-mystery-of-murakami/375064/?single_page=true
 
Ko traži inspiraciju za velika dela, može ju potražiti na istom mestu gde i Ernest Hemingvej, u teškoj, masnoj, veoma začinjenoj hrani i teškom crnom vinu.

http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/08/fatty-patty-hemingway-king-hamburgers

His fourth wife, Mary, divulged the juicy details to the Woman’s Day Encyclopaedia of Cookery, explaining that she cooked up these particular burgers “to fortify us for tramping through sagebrush after pheasant, partridge, or ducks, or, after such hikes, to console us for not having shot our limits”.

Prijatno :rostilj:
 
Izgleda da je izbor Patrika Modiana iznenađenje za sve, uključujući i njega samog. Kratak tekst iz Gvardijana o njegovom delu.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ciation-nobel-prize-literature-2014?CMP=fb_gu

In Modiano's books, which are often set during the Occupation, the atmospherics of nostalgia act as a servant to much deeper themes of survival and alienation.

He captures an amoral, often louche, and always ambiguous, world – a world of uncertain identities and hidden agendas. Modiano exploits all forms of genre, stealing from the spy novel and detective fiction – film noir too. But what seems to interest him most is the gaps in people's lives – the bits that have been removed or repressed, the bits that can't be accounted for.

Hura za krimi pisca, dobitnika Nobelove nagrade za književnost:D
 

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