The bakery robberies
The Bakery Raids is a book by Haruki Murakami . It is a collection of two short stories published in Japanese in 1981 and 1985. The German translation was published by Dumont-Verlag in 2012.
The first short story appeared in 1981 in the literary magazine Waseda Bungaku , and in the same year in Murakami's short story collection Yume de Aimashō . The second short story appeared in 1985 in the women's magazine Marie Claire , which at that time had a strong cultural section in Japan under the literary critic Ken Yasuhara as deputy editor-in-chief, and in 1986 in the short story collection Pan-ya Saishūgeki .
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The first bakery attack ( パ ン 屋 襲 撃 Pan-ya Shūgeki )
For lack of money, the narrator and a couple of student friends raid a bakery. The bakery owner gives them croissants, but on the condition that they must be eaten in the bakery while Richard Wagner is playing music and he curses the thieves.
The second bakery attack ( パ ン 屋 再襲 撃Pan-ya Saishūgeki )
About ten years after the first bakery attack, the narrator is married and, together with his wife, is hungry at night. He tells her about his bakery attack and the two make the decision to raid a bakery again. To do this, they get into the car with a shotgun in it, tape off the license plates and go looking for a bakery. Since no bakery in Tokyo is open at night, they decide to raid a McDonald's branch. There they steal 30 hamburgers, of which they eat ten in a parking lot, and finally they smoke a cigarette together. At the end they admire the sunrise in the parking lot.
criticism
“While the first bakery attack in its bizarre and slapstick seems to have sprung from a thoroughly stoned atmosphere, the second attack reads like a dream. Haruki Murakami twice writes past reality with virtuosity and engages in an elegant, fantastic plot. The short, reduced bakery raids (whose subject of hunger is known to have inspired Franz Kafka or Knut Hamsun) are reminiscent of a Murakami who recently seems to have given up his masterful short form to the detriment of a boring, gossiped riddle - most recently with his 1,600-page opus " 1Q84 ". "
Illustrations
The illustrations in the German translation are by Kat Menschik . They each take up individual images from the stories.
Short films
Both works were adapted as short films. Naoko Yamakawa adapted the first short story in 1982 into a 16-minute Japanese film, while the second work by Carlos Cureron was implemented in 2010 as a 10-minute US-Mexican film with the assistance of Kirsten Dunst .
literature
- Haruki Murakami: The Bakery Raids. Translated from Japanese by Damian Larens with illustrations by Kat Menschik, Dumont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9636-3
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