TY - BOOK AU - Murakami, Haruki, TI - Haruki Murakami goes to meet Hayao Kawai SN - 9783856307646 U1 - 895.609 KYO PY - 1996/// CY - Tokyo PB - Kayoko Kawai and haruki Murakami N2 - Two of Japan's foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk took place at a particular location at a particular moment in history, much of the content is timeless and universal. After popular acclaim in Japan, the transcript now makes its first appearance in English. Topics from the Contents: The Meaning of Commitment Words or Images? Making Stories Answering Logically versus Answering Compassionately Self-Healing and Novels Marriage and 'Well-digging' Curing and Living Stories and the Body The Relationship between a Work and its Author Individuality and Universality Violence and Expression Where are We Headed? ER -