On Twitter, today I "enjoyed" a nice conversation with another user about how we should zone any literature to save their rights to the truly diligent readers. I remembered... TBH, when I was in my 20s (or even in my 30s), I couldn't have a nice, calm discussion with others to find the gap/difference between us and try to build our conclusion, but just ended as a silly argument... However, I was so silly that I just strictly believed that kind of "battles" must have been the true creative discussions, because they at least seemed to me to crush the too-friendly mood/atmosphere.
For me, Haruki Murakami's works have been suggesting to me how I should commit to the outer world with my language, and my active attitude of talking to them... In Japan, some cynical critics and readers blame him because Haruki's attitude seems to them as too sophisticated, and also too "detached" from this world (for them, maybe Haruki could seem to enjoy staying in his own world with his favorite items such as Jazz, cats, and ladies very introvertly). But, to me Haruki always (yes, EVEN now) keeps telling me how to face this cruel world with my honest, diligent attitude with a certain courage and my policy...
Therefore, by following Haruki's trials and errors (in a way, for me Haruki must be a very awkward, or a very uncool author who has even shown his very miserable, so-called flops such as "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki"), I have certainly built myself, especially learned how to become a mature adult who can show my flag in public to commit the outer world.
Of course, this sort of issue about how to commit to the outer world with my original, unique opinions is even a banal, evergreen topic for us. Looking back at the history of literature, many authors (such as Kenzaburo Oe, Kobo Abe, Yukio Mishima, and so on) have tried to show their figures. Then, I need to tell you about how the Japanese style of his works seems to me very charming, very simply "clear" enough as mineral water, which even contains its "delicious" taste.
