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Jay Rubin
Jay Rubin (b. 1941) is an American academic, translator, and (as of 2015) novelist. He is best known for his translations of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. He has written about Murakami, the novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), the short story writers Kunikida Doppo... show more



Jay Rubin (b. 1941) is an American academic, translator, and (as of 2015) novelist. He is best known for his translations of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. He has written about Murakami, the novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), the short story writers Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908) and Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927), prewar Japanese literary censorship, Noh drama, and Japanese grammar. In May 2015 Chin Music Press published his novel THE SUN GODS, set in Seattle against the background of the incarceration of 120,000 U.S. citizens and non-citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II.Rubin has a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Washington for eighteen years, and then moved to Harvard University, from which he retired in 2006. He lives near Seattle, where he continues to write and translate.

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runner
runner rated it 6 years ago
A few years ago I read "What I talk about when I talk about running" which was an introduction to the wonderful world and easy writing style of Haruki Murakami. Why it has taken me so long to read more of his works I do not understand but having just finished the astounding Norwegian Wood I plan to ...
Hol
Hol rated it 6 years ago
Try as I might, I still can’t work out this book. I finished it a week or more ago and it still doesn’t make all that much sense to me. With that said and the litany of reviews out there concerning it, I’m going to make this review fairly short. The plots starts out strangely, in true Murakami sty...
"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it 7 years ago
As Duke Ellington once said, “There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind.” In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to “good” music transcends questions of genre. I studied at Tanglewood during summers as a ...
capriceum
capriceum rated it 7 years ago
The book was wonderfully weird and pulled me right in. It reminded me of Kafka at times with its blurred lines between dream and reality. I really loved the symbolism and themes the story played with. Murakami uses water, light, darkness, storytelling, and states of consciousness beautifully. The ch...
The Professor
The Professor rated it 7 years ago
“I don’t talk about the goat”. Much ado about nothing. Peak-Murakami for some, a test of patience for others, this is, however which way you spin it, too long and may well send you away wondering whether your time has been well spent. If an extended will-they, won’t-they romantic narrative with a sp...
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