Ryu Murakami

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Ryū Murakami (2005)

Ryū Murakami ( Japanese 村上 龍 , Murakami Ryū ; born February 19, 1952 in Sasebo , Nagasaki Prefecture as Ryūnosuke Murakami ( 村上 龍之介 , Murakami Ryūnosuke )) is a Japanese writer , screenwriter and director .

Life

Murakami grew up as the son of a teacher couple in his birthplace Sasebo near a base of the United States Navy . During his school days in the 1960s he was fascinated by the hippie culture and during this time he was involved in the student movement against the Vietnam War, which was also taking place in Japan . As a teenager he was interested in film and music making, for example he played drums in a band. He studied at the Musashino Art College near Tokyo , during which time he began writing fictional stories and dropped out of his studies to concentrate on writing. Murakami is married and has one son (born 1980).

Literary work

Murakami Ryū is one of the best-known representatives of Japanese literature in the international arena . In this context, the term "the other Murakami" is often used for him, in a humorous allusion to the Japanese writer Murakami Haruki, who is very popular worldwide . The award of the Akutagawa Prize for his work Kagirinaku tōmei ni chikai burū (限 り な く 透明 に 近 い ブ ル ー; blue lines on transparent skin. Tokyo bottom line ) in 1976 placed Murakami in the literary category of "pure literature" ( jun bungaku ) , which is intended to distinguish between "high literature" and entertainment literature . The fact that Murakami is considered the enfant terrible in the Japanese literary scene is seen in part as a contrast to the renowned literary classification. He is one of the most prominent representatives of Japanese precariat literature .

His early works can be described as partly autobiographical. His debut novel, Blue Lines on Transparent Skin, depicts bored young people indulging in a 'sex, drugs and rock'n'roll' lifestyle in a Japanese town near a military base. The work shows parallels to the author's life not only through this location, but also through the main character named “Ryu”, albeit artistically exaggerated. In novel 69 he takes up the theme of the student movements in Japan and describes a “revolution” by a young protagonist in the Japanese province.

With projects in digital media , Murakami seems to have opened up further creative scope for himself. In 2010 he caused a stir when he announced, in cooperation with Apple, his novel A Singing Whale as a multimedia download for the iPad , instead of in book form from the traditional Japanese publisher Kōdansha . The digital novel contains video elements as well as pieces of music composed by the Japanese musician Ryūichi Sakamoto . Another example is the video channel MurakamiRyuRVR , which he set up on the online platform YouTube . The channel was active until September 2012, the last video has the number 276. Murakami published videos on this platform in which he discusses current events with various interlocutors. His texts have been adapted by directors such as Anno Hideaki and Takashi Miike and he has cooperated with well-known Japanese artists e.g. B. with the musician Sakamoto Ryūichi .

Novels

  • 1976: Kagirinaku Tōmei ni Chikai Blue ( 限 り な く 透明 に 近 い ブ ル ー , Kagirinaku tōmei ni chikai burū )
    German: Blue lines on transparent skin . Tokyo bottom line . rororo panther, Reinbek near Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-499-12125-5
  • 1977: Umi no Mukō de Sensō ga Hajimaru ( 海 の 向 こ う で 戦 争 が 始 ま る )
  • 1980: Coin Locker Babies ( コ イ ン ロ ッ カ ー ・ ベ イ ビ ー ズ , Koin rokkā beibīzu )
    German: Coin Locker Babies , from the Jap. v. Ursula Graefe. Septime, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-902711-35-9
  • 1983: Daijōbu My Friend ( だ い じ ょ う ぶ マ イ ・ フ レ ン ド , Daijōbu mai furendo )
  • 1985: Tennis Boy no Yūutsu ( テ ニ ス ボ ー イ の 憂鬱 , Tenisu bōi no yūutsu )
  • 1987: 69 sixty nine ( 69 シ ク ス テ ィ ナ イ ン , 69 shikusutinain )
    German: 69 . Verl.-Haus No. 8, Wetzlar 2000, ISBN 3-934763-11-1
  • 1987: Ai to Gensō no Fashism ( 愛 と 幻想 の フ ァ シ ズ ム , Ai to gensō no fashizumu )
  • 1989: Raffles Hotel ( ラ ッ フ ル ズ ホ テ ル , Raffuruzu Hoteru )
  • 1991: Cocksucker Blues ( コ ッ ク サ ッ カ ー ブ ル ー ス , kokku sakkā burūsu )
  • 1991: Chōdendō Nightclub ( 超 電導 ナ イ ト ク ラ ブ , Chōdendō naito kurabu )
  • 1992: Ibiza ( イ ビ サ , Ibisa )
  • 1992: Nagasaki Oranda Mura ( 長崎 オ ラ ン ダ 村 )
  • 1993: Ecstasy ( エ ク ス タ シ ー , Ekusutashī )
  • 1993: Fiji no Kobito ( フ ィ ジ ー の 小人 , Fijī no kobito )
  • 1993: 368Y Par4 Dai-2-da (368Y Par4 第 2 打 )
  • 1993: Ongaku no Kaigan ( 音 楽 の 海岸 )
  • 1994: Shōwa Kayō Taizenshū ( 昭和 歌 謡 大 全集 )
  • 1994: Gofungo no Sekai ( 五分 後 の 世界 )
  • 1994: Piercing ( ピ ア ッ シ ン グ , piasshingu )
    German: Piercing . Liebeskind, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-935890-59-5
  • 1995: KYOKO
  • 1996: Hyūga Virus. Gofungo no Sekai II ( ヒ ュ ウ ガ ・ ウ イ ル ス 五分 後 の 世界 Ⅱ , Hyūga uirusu: gofungo no sekai II )
  • 1996: Melancholia ( メ ラ ン コ リ ア , Merankoria )
  • 1996: Love & Pop: Topaz II ( ラ ブ & ポ ッ プ ト パ ー ズ Ⅱ , Rabu & Poppu topāzu II )
  • 1996: Hajimete no Yoru. Nidome no Yoru. Saigo no Yoru ( は じ め て の 夜 二度 目 の 夜 最後 の 夜 )
  • 1997: Audition ( オ ー デ ィ シ ョ ン , Ōdishon )
    German: The casting . Septime, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902711-15-1
  • 1997: Strange Days ( ス ト レ ン ジ ・ デ イ ズ , Sutorenji deizu )
  • 1997: In the Miso Soup ( イ ン ザ ・ ミ ソ ス ー プ , In za miso sūpu )
    German: In the miso soup . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-462-03733-3
  • 1998: Line ( ラ イ ン , Rain )
  • 2000: Kyōseichū ( 共生 虫 )
  • 2000: Kibō no Kuni no Exodus ( 希望 の 国 の エ ク ソ ダ ス , Kibō no kuni no ekusodasu )
  • 2001: Thanatos ( タ ナ ト ス , Tanatosu )
  • 2001: THE MASK CLUB
  • 2001: Saigo no Kazoku ( 最後 の 家族 )
  • 2001: Akuma no Path Tenshi no Goal ( 悪 魔 の パ ス 天使 の ゴ ー ル , Akuma no pasu Tenshi no gōru )
  • 2002: 2days 4girls. 2-nichikan de 4-nin no Onna to Sex suru Hōhō (2days 4girls 2 日間 で 4 人 の 女 と セ ッ ク ス す る 方法 , 2days 4girls. 2-nichikan de 4-nin no onna to sekkusu suru hōho )
  • 2005: Hantō o De yo ( 半島 を 出 よ )
    German: In Liebe, Dein Vaterland - Volume I: The Invasion . Septime Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-902-71176-2
  • 2010: A Singing Whale ( 歌 う ク ジ ラ , Utau kujira ). Only as an iPad download, including videos and music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Filmography

  • As a director and / or screenwriter:
    • Almost Transparent Blue (Director & Screenplay, 1979)
    • Daijoubu Mai Furendo ( All Right, My Friend , director & screenplay, 1983)
    • Raffles Hotel (Director, 1989)
    • Topaz ( Tokyo Decadence , director & screenplay, 1992)
    • Kyoko (Director & Screenplay, 1996)
  • Films based on his works:
    • Love & Pop (1998)
    • Audition (1999)
    • Hashire! Ishiro (2001)
    • Shōwa Kayō Taizenshū (2002)
    • 69 - sixty nine (2004)
    • Coin Locker Babies (2006)
    • Piercing (2018)

literature

  • Lisette Gebhardt (2010): After dark. Contemporary Japanese literature under the sign of the precarious. Berlin: EB-Verlag (= series on Japanese literature and culture, Vol. 1). ISBN 978-3-86893-031-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ryu Murakami , in: Financial Times, September 27, 2013.
  2. ↑ Authors: Ryu Murakami ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Books From Japan. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.booksfromjapan.jp
  3. ↑ Leopold Federmair: "Coin Locker Babies": The other Murakami , in: Der Standard.at, October 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Lisette Gebhardt (2010): After dark. Contemporary Japanese literature under the sign of the precarious. Berlin: EB-Verlag.
  5. ↑ "Der Meister der Japankritik", in: Lisette Gebhardt (Ed.) (2013): Yomitai. New literature from Japan. , Japanese Literature and Culture Series. Berlin: EB-Verlag, pp. 345-350.
  6. ↑ Robert McCrum: Might Ryu Murakami's switch to the iPad signal the beginning of the end for traditional publishers? , in: The Guardian, July 25, 2010.
  7. ↑ Channel MurakamiRyuRVR on YouTube.
personal data
SURNAME Murakami, Ryu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 村上 龍 (Japanese); 村上 龍之介 (Japanese, real name); Murakami Ryūnosuke (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese author
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Sasebo