![]() ![]() ![]() There is plenty to numb himself against: a failed marriage a job turning out meaningless fluff for an advertising agency the realities of present-day Japan - overcrowded, overdeveloped, its traditions and its natural landscape disappearing. ''Most people,'' he muses, ''they're trying to escape from boredom, but I'm trying to get into the thick of boredom.'' Murakami's protagonist has developed a talent for numbing his feelings. Better anesthetized than Marlowe (whose bleeding heart usually shows through), ![]() Who records every drink and every cigarette he takes, he has a barely furnished apartment, an almost empty refrigerator and minimal connections with the human race. Writer Haruki Murakami are more attracted to the metaphysical aspect of the category, making use of its depiction of humanity's existential predicament and paying less attention to rapidly paced plot and violent death.Īlthough he is not a professional detective but an amateur who has a case dropped in his lap, the unnamed narrator of ''A Wild Sheep Chase'' has some of the traits of a younger, cooler Philip Marlowe. Europeans, Latin Americans, and now the Japanese ![]() Created by Raymond Chandler, elaboratedīy Ross Macdonald and perpetuated by successors like Robert Parker, the genre reinvents itself from generation to generation in the United States, always wearing the traditional trappings. Ometimes I think America's most enduring contribution to literature is the hard-boiled detective story. DecemJust the Myths Ma'am By ANN ARENSBERG ![]()
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