{"id":289916,"date":"2012-04-09T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/04\/09\/haruki-murakami-in-search-of-this-elusive-writer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:41","slug":"haruki-murakami-in-search-of-this-elusive-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/04\/09\/haruki-murakami-in-search-of-this-elusive-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Haruki Murakami: In Search of this Elusive Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all of you Murakami fans out there, embedded below is <em>Haruki Murakami: In Search of this Elusive Writer<\/em>, an hour-long <span class=\"caps\">BBC<\/span> documentary by Alan Yentob (presenter) and Rupert Edwards (camerawork).<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/02\/in_search_of_haruki_murakami_japans_great_postmodernist_novelist.html\">this post about it:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Haruki Murakami holds the titles of both the most popular novelist in Japan and the most popular Japanese novelist in the wider world. After publishing <em>Norwegian Wood<\/em> in 1987, a book often called \u201cthe Japanese Catcher in the Rye,\u201d Murakami\u2019s notoriety exploded to such an extent that he felt forced out of his homeland, a country whose traditional ways and \u2014 to his mind \u2014 conformist mindset never sat right with him in the first place. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rupert Edwards\u2019 camera follows veteran presenter Alan Yentob through Japan, from the midnight Tokyo of <em>After Hours<\/em> to the snowed-in Hokkaido of <em>A Wild Sheep Chase<\/em>, in a quest to find artifacts of the supremely famous yet media-shy novelist\u2019s imaginary world. Built around interviews with fans and translators but thick with such Murakamiana as laid-back jazz standards, grim school hallways, sixties pop hits, women\u2019s ears, vinyl records, marathon runners, and talking cats, the broadcast strives less to explain Murakami\u2019s substance than to simply reflect it. If you find your curiosity piqued by all the fuss over <em>1Q84<\/em>, Murakami\u2019s latest, you might watch it as something of an aesthetic primer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NI6LyqO9i8Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of you Murakami fans out there, embedded below is Haruki Murakami: In Search of this Elusive Writer, an hour-long BBC documentary by Alan Yentob (presenter) and Rupert Edwards (camerawork). According to this post about it: Haruki Murakami holds the titles of both the most popular novelist in Japan and the most popular Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[46306,25466,6506,46296,1286,46316],"class_list":["post-289916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alan-yentob","tag-bbc","tag-haruki-murakami","tag-in-search-of-this-elusive-author","tag-japanese-literature","tag-rupert-edwards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341526,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289916\/revisions\/341526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}