A serial discussion about Haruki Murakami is still ongoing on Twitter, at least among my friends or the people I'm following. It's fascinating for me because this fact means Haruki's literature has STILL been actual or real for us to discuss so seriously. As you already know, I'm not pro-critic. From this viewpoint, I just tell what I've been thinking as my "stubborn", and "diligent" ideas about him.
As I have already written before, for me Haruki has been having a very crisp, logical style enough for me to understand his opinions so easily. As he always tells us, he has been influenced by various American literature such as Fitzgerald, Chandler, and Capote, therefore, he must have trained by those authors' marvelous English (or, the translated version into Japanese). That was a different style, or even a really "brand new" style as a sort of revolution I guess.
As for me, once I was just a simple wanna-be amateur who wished to become a writer (although I had not found what I could write as my work yet), Haruki's novels certainly (yes, definitely) pointed out what way I could go. I'm, as always writing in these journals, an autistic person and maybe having a completely different (probably too-UNIQUE) circuit of thinking in my head, so Haruki's systematic style of writing seemed very similar to mine.
As a fan of his (but, I sometimes even CRITICIZE him... Does this need any verbalized reason why I do so?), I won't hide how I respect him, and even follow his stoic, systematic writing style. Although I feel a little bit disappointed by the fact that he couldn't get the Nobel Prize, this recent serial discussion on Twitter taught me how important Haruki still is to me. I want to keep declaring what I love, so I say I respect him (and criticize him, too).
Yes, for me his works are like R.E.M. or Bruce Springsteen's music. Partly, well-sophisticated and well-political. I admit that Kenzaburo Oe must have been more serious and actual than Haruki (yes, Haruki must be too popstar-like). From this viewpoint, I need to think about this issue more.
BTW... I have gotten the permission to show this in public. At last, I have completed my first picture.
