{"id":288446,"date":"2011-12-12T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/12\/12\/latest-review-iq84-by-haruki-murakami\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:54","slug":"latest-review-iq84-by-haruki-murakami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/12\/12\/latest-review-iq84-by-haruki-murakami\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "IQ84" by Haruki Murakami"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is a piece by contributing reviewer Will Eells on 1Q84<\/em>, Haruki Murakami’s “total novel” that is pretty much the only work of international literature making its way onto the year-end lists at the “big” review outlets. It’s a huge book, and in order to get all three books out at once, Knopf used two Japanese translators: Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.<\/p>\n

For anyone who hasn’t encountered his reviews in the past, Will<\/a> is one of our most personal and interesting reviewers. He’s reviewed a fair number of Japanese works for us, but is interested in contemporary lit in general. He’s also an aspiring translator who is working on a really interesting project. (One that still needs a publisher.)<\/p>\n

In terms of 1Q84<\/em>, I think most anyone reading this blog is familiar with Murakami in general, and this novel in particular. It’s a book that generated a shitton of hype, and one that is beloved by some (see Michael Orthofer’s review<\/a>) while leaving others unimpressed (see Scott Esposito’s review<\/a>). Will falls squarely in the middle and breaks this down pretty well . . . <\/p>\n

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It seems to me now, based on the few reviews that I have read, that the reception of 1Q84<\/em> has indeed fallen into these two camps: absolutely transcendent and absolutely horrific. Neither, in my opinion, captures how I feel 1Q84<\/em> is as a novel, especially as just one book in a huge body of work. Because for all its ambition and scope, 1Q84<\/em> is just pretty good. There\u2019s a lot of it that is really good and some that is really bad. But, I can tell you exactly how it could\u2019ve been so much better. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Murakami should have never written Book 3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to read his full review. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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