Hard-boiled structure

Murakami's practice, explained in the archival clip, of borrowing the structure of hard-boiled mysteries, science fiction and love stories without writing in those genres, drawn to the loner-individualist detective.

Where it appears 1

• 
  the forbidden wonderland of murakamiEp 10 · with Salih Yayar

  Listen at 0:47Read it in the transcript

Connections

Explored through

• It's not easy to live in Japan as a loner. And I'm a loner, you know, I'm an individualist.Haruki Murakami · Ep 10 · 1:39