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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Power of the “Story”
One Last Dance with the Sheep
From Reader to Writer in Twenty-Nine Easy Steps
Murakami as Global Writer
Murakami as a Japanese Writer
Enter the “Other World”
Into the Cellar of Our Minds
1: New Words, New Worlds
The Ontological Status of Language
Ecos of the Past
Of Dogs and Men
Prophesy and Prediction
Reconstructing the Self through Words: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Reconstructing the Self through Words: Kafka on the Shore
A Question of Subjectivity
A Whole New World: 1Q84
2: Into the Mad, Metaphysical Realm
Mapping “Over There”
Of Psyche and Soul
Martian Winds and Wells: Hear the Wind Sing
Into the Chilly Gloom: Pinball, 1973
Passages to the World of the Dead
Metaphysical Realism: Norwegian Wood
The Unconscious “Shared Space”: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Body as Vessel
Into the Forbidding Forest
Exploiting the Mind-Body Split
Balance and Flow
An Uncontrolled Substance: After Dark
Once More into the Wormhole
3: Gods and Oracles, Fate and Mythology
Mythology’s Greatest Hits
The Mythological Murakami
The Early Underworld: Cold Storage
Thunder of the Gods
It’s Not Easy Being Divine
Of True and False Prophets
Fate versus Free Will: Kafka on the Shore and 1Q84
The Killing of the Father
4: Murakami Haruki as Literary Journalist
Toward a Definition of Literary Journalism
The Role of the Media
Underground and Underground 2
From Creative Nonfiction to Journalistic Fiction
Fictional Realities and Real Fictions
Double Exposure: 1Q84
5: Forbidden Dreams from “Over There”
The Early Narrative
The Present Narrative
Once More into the “Other World”
Through the Doors of Perception
Forbidden Dreams from “Over There”
Shiro’s Forbidden Dreams
Epilogue: The Roads Not Taken
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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