Murakami Haruki at the Complete Review. In Spring it is the Dawn: 'A Wild Sheep Chase' Discussion (JLit Book Group) Welcome to the Japanese Literature Book Group discussion of A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami.
About the author Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949. He grew up in Kobe and graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo. He is the author of several novels, including The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. 'Pataphysics. Jarry in Alfortville 'Pataphysics (French: 'pataphysique) is a philosophy or media theory dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics.
The concept was coined by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), who defined 'pataphysics as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments".[1] A practitioner of 'pataphysics is a pataphysician or a pataphysicist. Definitions[edit] There are over one hundred differing definitions of pataphysics.[2] Some examples are shown below. 1Q84 - Murakami Haruki.