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        Haruki Murakami
Yukio Mishima
hara-kiri
samurai
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Haruki Murakami grew up in the 1950s in a country fuelled by the very darkest memories, memories of a shameful war, of devastation, humiliation and defeat. The cult hero of Japanese literature when Murakami was growing up was Yukio Mishima, a nationalist, a militarist, a writer obsessed with Japan's past and traditions, who ended up committing hara-kiri, in the ultimate act of devotion to his samurai ideals. Murakami despised everything Mishima stood for. He wrote, all I could think about when I began writing fiction in my youth was how to run as far as I could from the Japanese condition. I wanted to distance myself as much as possible from the curse of Japanese.
Murakami turned Japanese literature on its head, writing novels and short stories heavily influenced by Western literature that were contemporary, humorous, and that often slipped into the surreal.