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        Murakami

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He's never really fitted in, has he? I mean how much is he a Japanese writer?
One thing that I don't think is central to Murakami is that search for Japanese identity. I think it's so much there in so many Japanese writers that you can get a little tired of it. I don't think there's any likelihood that Murakami would have had the worldwide impact he's had if all he were doing was preaching to the world, or teaching the world about what it means to be Japanese. That's there, but it's finally, it's what it means to be human, and that's why so many different cultures are able to relate to him. I think he manages to do that. He manages to borrow into these things that are so much part of the brain, and part of the individual psyche, that he doesn't encounter cultural resistance. He's obviously dealing with the things that so many people do feel as the most important things in their lives, things that have to do with the kinds of issues that religion tries to deal with. So in a way he's dealing with religious themes without the remotest appeal to any kind of established religion, I think. I think that's one of the things that's made him so moving to so many different people from so many different countries. He's getting into those things that you can call spiritual without any spiritual nonsense. It's really very down-to-earth spirituality.