Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture

by Michael Robert Seats

Book Overview

In his book, Murakami Haruki, Dr. Michael Seats offers an important philosophical intervention in the discussion of the relationship between Murakami's fiction and contemporary Japanese culture. Breaking through conventional analysis, Seats demonstrates how Murakami's first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture. By outlining the critical-fictional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073912725X
• ISBN13: 9780739127254
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"