Book 33: “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” by Haruki Murakami
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 19:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeShe just tipped her head a little and said nothing. With her back to me, she allowed her slender fingers to trail in the water. It seemed as if my questions were coursing through her fingers to be conducted to the ruined city beneath the water. It's still down there, I'm sure, the question mark glittering at the bottom of the pond like a polished metal fragment. For all I know, it's showering the cola cans around it with that same question.
These are the first of this author’s short stories that I have read and I found the introduction, in which he discussed how his approach to writing short stories differed to his approach to novel-writing, was extremely interesting. The stories themselves were a mixture of realistic possibly semi-autobiographical stories, and stories that included more fantastic elements. For some reason my favourite stories adjoined each other, being the last five stories in the book, starting with "Chance Traveller". I think I liked them best because they had a more optimistic tone than a lot of the earlier stories.
These are the first of this author’s short stories that I have read and I found the introduction, in which he discussed how his approach to writing short stories differed to his approach to novel-writing, was extremely interesting. The stories themselves were a mixture of realistic possibly semi-autobiographical stories, and stories that included more fantastic elements. For some reason my favourite stories adjoined each other, being the last five stories in the book, starting with "Chance Traveller". I think I liked them best because they had a more optimistic tone than a lot of the earlier stories.
