Pinball, 1973

Murakami's second kitchen-table novella; Tamir misremembers the year in the title as 1984 or 1983.

Where it appears 2

• 
  how to win at pinball & lifeEp 3 · with Ian Coll

  Murakami's second novella, source of the episode title: pinball as a metaphor for life, a game you always lose in the end, played not for the score but for self-transformation.

• 
  the antidote to madnessEp 2 · with Grant Shipway

  Listen at 1:16:50Read it in the transcript

Connections

Written by

• Haruki Murakami

Mentioned alongside

• Murakami wrote at the kitchen tableTamir Barzilai · Ep 2 · 1:16:50

  Tamir recounts that Murakami, at 30, ran a bar and after getting home late at night would sit at his kitchen table for two hours writing by hand, producing Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball…

Themes and ideas

• Pinball as a metaphor for life

Referenced by

• Pinball as a metaphor for life
• Kitchen Table Novels