Haruki Murakami: The Magic of Simplicity

Great essay! You're bringing up many points that I never considered. Maybe it's time for a reread of these wonderful pieces of literature.

Idk what it is but he details it so beautiful that you feel like you want to be in that and after you are the reading it settles in that you not there but you felt it , its jow beautifully he writes it just brings peace to my soul.

His running book is so inspiring! I have his book Novelist as a Vocation and it’s wonderful.

If you’re going to make a video about a writer, you might want to make doubly sure that your captions are correct too. “Alot” is not a word. “A lot” written as two words, is correct. No one expects you to re-edit the video, but for future reference, “a lot” is grammatically correct. Hope that helps you! 🙂👍🏻

I used to not enjoy reading books unless they were history books or educational in some way, I’m the kind of guy who can’t imagine the image of an apple in his head so most descriptions felt very vague and unfamiliar to me so I could never relate enough to devour books.
Later in life a friend recommended Murakami, Norwegian Wood to be precise, and his descriptions were so precise yet simple that I could imagine them, his love for music in all his books is also something I can relate to but above all what I really love is how he writes characters, what they go through and how they develop, the simples joys in life, love and how destructive life can be. I’ve since read a bunch of his books and his short stories and I love every single one of them (except maybe Sputnik Sweetheart, that one was enjoyable but not a favorite). With Murakami I feel like I’m reading something that happened in real life even when it gets so silly like a man who can talk to cats and summons fish from the sky. My personal favorite is Men without Women, to this day it remains the most powerful bunch of short stories I’ve ever read and they’ve left a deep mark in me.

Very good video. Will you be making videos in the future?

great job 😍

I'm not a native English speaker and I enjoyed reading Haruki short stories. Simple words, entertaining and open my eyes to many thing and let me feel like I belong to his stories because they represent many of us lives. I finally found my favorite author ❤

I'm a big murakami fan , the first book I've read was Kafka on the shore and the experience I had while reading that book was surreal , I felt like I was experience everything Kafka taimura was going through , the library , the cottage in the woods , the forest every thing and ofcourse Nakata was my favourite .. then I've real Norwegian woods idk why it's so hyped the writing is 100/10 murakami way of writing is something else like psychedelic but the story was okay Midori is my favourite character in Norwegian woods and now I'm currently on the wind up bird chronicle and I can't explain what it's impact on me going through a worst phase of my life and this is the only book that keeping me through this phase .. for me murakami books are psychedelic without taking any psychedelic my mind is alter and my heart feels beauty of every day life

Thanks for this high quality analysis of this great writer. Very inspiring !

Loved it keep up the good work

Very good analysis brother

pretend you're happy when you're blue

Reiko never fall in love with that narcissistic teen! She just accidently fell her trick. In fact she announced she was not liked women.

Where did you find the foreword to Hear the Wind Sing? Is it actually Murakami writing or his narrator...? I just can't find any information about how Murakami wrote that first novel in English... or am I missing something. Thank you for the video, by the way, very interesting

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* "alot" is NOT a word any literate, educated person uses. Just a tip!

This video was very well done!

Ive begun to think of Murakami as a spinner of the sublime--not the mathematical kind or others--but the kind that opens up a world in your mind that you can never reach and yet makes you feel the possibilities of this one.

Beautiful coverage of Murakami's worlds.

Great essay...loved it

We don't have time to relax and appreciate the small things. Technology has changed our perceptions,we overloaded with many influencers.

Marcel Proust same

Well done, insightful comments

I started to love him when I was 16 years old. Now I am close to my 40s. Where time flies?

very much enjoyed this

like cosmic caz

Incredible !!!!!!!!!!!! thanks !!

You are a charlatan, trying to capitalize on a creative person who is far more talented than you. Please stop this. This is not what Murakami is about. Stop. What you are doing is idiotic and exploitative.Stop now.

I appreciate the effort, but you are full of it. Murakami was influenced by American writers, but he always wrote in Japanese. Please get your facts straight before producing shiny videos that have nothing to do with real literature.

I picked up Norwegian Wood about 6 months ago. It made me fall in love with his writing. It's so simple, but equally beautiful. I've read Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Wind-Pinball, and I'm about 200 pages into 1Q84. So far my favorite has been Wind-Up Bird. What a wonderful book that is! Kafka on the Shore is amazing too! Wind-Pinball is the only work of his that I haven't been crazy about, but it's understandable, being his first two novellas.

The most complicated way to describe simlicity

Wonderful video and content

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I loved Drive my car. Started searching for his work lol. Good video and I'm definitely gonna read his books

If you like Murakami, you might enjoy the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. They employ magical realism in a similar, perhaps more mysterious way.

Great video, thank you for the spoiler warnings. Always appreciated.

One of the big things i have been told and understand. which makes japanese writing more clear is that they don't put in every detail. they are purposely ambiguous in some cases.

i would say that dennys is interchangeable but the misery of the worker is there to see and actually a lot easier to see than those working in independent restaurants but you turn your head like you would a homeless man.

I have the same thoughts about Reiko, Norwegian Wood is my first Murakami book

Simple language that's written well...that's the ticket.

The first time Reiko was introduced in the story I was hell bent that this was the person, she just had a different feel to her character and specially how her wrinkles suited her and how her cigs dangled from her mouth.
I just knew she was not good .
Anyways the essay was very good, I listened to th entire video and agreed to most of your critics about his work.
Murakami does something to us through his writing that I too am not able to express.
All the best.

Thank you for making this video. I often feel that it is so difficult to put into words what it means to read Murakami, but you have done an excellent job.

I've known about him for a few months now but i just recently bought his book: "First Person Singular".

Hi, thank you. I've read all these, but have no one I can discuss them with. I mostly agree with you...but ''Kafka on the Shore'' is my favorite: I've read it three time (so far!), very unusual for me, a lifetime avid reader. Liked and subscribed; hope to see more. I like the way the video is done, too...combining images with his words, while commenting. Amazing that you juggle all three so well!
I am a visual artist, combining images of my own sculpture, paintings and photographs with digital means.,,,melding, I call it.

simply thank you.