What keeps Haruki Murakami healthy? 'Music and cats,' he says.
”—my first full-length novel. That took time—three or four years, I guess—and I really had to dig a hole to get to the spring. So I think “A Wild Sheep Chase” was the starting point of my real career. The first three years, I was writing while I was working as the owner of a jazz club. I’d finish my work at two in the morning and then sit down to write at the kitchen table. That was too much for me. After the first two books, I decided that I would sell the club and become a full-time writer.
A few years ago you told me that, while you were working on a novel, you kept a list of ideas or phrases, like “a talking monkey” or “a man who disappears on the stairs,” and that when you finished the novel and sat down to write stories you said, “Each story must have two or three things from this list.” Do you work that way often?
Writing, like running, is a solitary pursuit. You went from a very social life in a jazz club—where there were people around you all the time—to being alone in your study. Which is more comfortable for you? Yes. That is a very big theme of my fiction—missing something and seeking it and finding it. My characters are often looking for something that has been lost. Sometimes it’s a girl, sometimes it’s a cause, sometimes it’s a purpose. But they are looking for something important, something critical, that was lost. But when the character finds it, there will be some kind of disappointment.
In your particular style, often there are complicated or dense ideas, but the writing itself isn’t dense or complicated. The actual sentences are quite simple and light. Is that contrast intentional? Yes. I love F. Scott Fitzgerald—and I have translated many of his books—but his style is so different from mine, so beautiful and complex. Still, I have learned so many things from his writing—his attitude, I suppose, his way of looking at the world. Raymond Carver’s style and his world are so different from mine, but I learned from him, as well.Why Cheever? I’ve enjoyed his short stories very much over many years, but Cheever is not popular in Japan.
I was curious. [When I did a similar exercise in 2015, it] was for a limited period, but I received so many e-mails. I don’t remember how many—thirty thousand, maybe. But I read them all—I injured my eyes! And I answered maybe three thousand of them. It was hard work, but I think I got a vague notion of what kind of people were reading my books, and what they were thinking about my work. Some of them asked stupid questions.
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