Hard-Boiled… Stylistic Adventures and the End of the… Millennial Literature: Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled… Stylistic Adventures and the End of the… Millennial Literature: Haruki Murakami

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to identify Haruki Murakami’s place in the millennial history of the Japanese Romanesque genius. Since the literary image of an epoch no longer describes only the present moment of creation, but also a cultural present and, therefore, also a certain face of the past through the way in which it was kept alive by posterity or the way in which it was revitalized by the respective epoch, the Japanese Postmodernism appears today to be a “return to Japan” or a reassessment of traditional Japan, as well as a need for “internationalism”, a means to assimilate certain new international cultural forms. Seen from this viewpoint, Haruki Murakami is an iconic author of his time and he is considered to be the Japanese writer who managed to assimilate and to quickly adapt to the postmodern literary practices, surpassing the cultural barriers rigorously maintained by Japanese traditionalism throughout the years.

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