What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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品牌: Haruki Murakami
基本信息·出版社：Harvill Secker
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2008年
·ISBN：1846552206
·条形码：9781846552205
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
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内容简介In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him.Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is rich and revealing, both for fans of this masterful yet private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.
作者简介Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. The most recent of his many honours is the Franz Kafka Prize.
媒体推荐Review
The celebrated novelist contemplates one of his favorite pastimes.Adapting his title from the fine Raymond Carver collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Murakami (After Dark, 2007, etc.) pulls together various pieces he has written on the subject of running over the years. "I see this book as a kind of memoir," he writes. "Not something as grand as a personal history, but calling it an essay collection is a bit forced." It's actually a slight but pleasant combination of all three forms, as the author recalls his near-obsession with running, an interest that has occupied him as much as writing during the past 25 years. Though he is often self-deprecating about his physique (" the sad spreadsheet of my life that reveals how much my debts far outweigh my assets"), Murakami's single-minded focus on the task at hand will impress runners and athletes of all levels. He maintains a methodical, disciplined training schedule, never taking two consecutive days off and never walking during a race. "I have only a few reasons to keep on running," he notes, "and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished." His discipline also extends to his writing, which he approaches with the simple but devoted attention of a master craftsman. "I'm not the type who operates through pure theory or logic," he notes, "not the type whose energy source is intellectual speculation." By maintaining a steady work ethic - and exercise regimen - he hopes to avoid the "literary burnout" that afflicted many of his favorite writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, Murakami reveres ("the kind of literature that nourishes you as you read"). Throughout this sleek volume, he draws many germane parallels between running and writing. He also recalls running in Central Park with John Irving in 1983, and remembers vividly the exact moment he decided to write his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing: at a baseball game in Japan at 1:30 p.m. on April 1, 1978.Though the insights don't resonate on the level of his novels, as always Murakami employs his artful, lucid prose to good effect. (Kirkus Reviews)
GQ
`comical, charming and philosophical...excellent memoir'
Evening Standard, Book of the Week, David Sexton
'...In its self-contained way, it's nothing less than an inspiration'
The Observer, Jason Cowley
`there's a wandering, digressive, free-form quality to the writing - like improvised jazz...and you finish the book charmed...'
The Independent, Boyd Tonkin
`takes in views of all literature, sport and the uphill journey of ageing, all with a modest fluency'
The Times, Iain Finlayson
`[Murakami] says no-one can warm to a character like his, but ... we keep pace and pay rapt attention.'
The Spectator
`Likeable and often rewarding'
Kudos
the reward is an utterly unique read
Evening Standard
`It's quirky and wise'
