Twórczość Harukiego Murakamiego w świetle zjawiska transkulturowości – muzyczne studium przypadku

Abstrakt

Haruki Murakami’s writings in the light of phenomenon of transculturalism – music case study

The main goal of the article is to show phenomenon of transculturalism in Haruki Murakami’s novels. Through analysis of western music on japanese ground I will try to demonstrate that there are pieces created with a completely new interpretative undertone. In his novels, among characters listening to Miles Davis, Radiohead or The Beatles, reading Franz Kafka or Fyodor Dostoyevsky and watching American westerns, we encounter traditions and aesthetic categories typical of Japan. Mono no aware, regardless of the writer’s intentions, builds up the background of all his novels. Moreover, this fact does not only result from his original style of writing but from the character of Japanese culture. I have employed this fact as a key to deciphering to what extent Murakami’s writings are postmodernist.