Haruki Murakami: Japanese Literature on the Global Stage, UC Berkeley, 12 Oct 08
By Ann| October 12, 2008 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 1:00 pm |
Format: Symposium. Free and open to the public.
Location: UC Berkeley Alumni House [View Directions]
Panel:
“Crazed Translator Gives Japanese Author Excedrin Headache”
Jay Rubin – (Harvard Univ.) translator of Murakami’s Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, author of Murakami Haruki and the Music of Words
“Lost in Translation? Murakami Haruki and the Japanization of the English Language”
Rebecca Suter – (Univ. of Sydney) author of The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States
“A Spatial Odyssey or, It’s All Greek to Me: East Meets West in Murakami Haruki’s Kafka On the Shore”
Matthew Strecher – (Winona State Univ.) author of Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki and Haruki Murakami’s Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader’s Guide
“Are There Any More Like You at Home? Cloning Murakami Haruki for the US Market”
Stephen Snyder – (Middlebury College) translator of novels by Natsuo Kirino, Kenzaburo Oe, and Ryu Murakami
Moderated by H. Mack Horton (UC Berkeley) and Alan Tansman (UC Berkeley)
Event details: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2008.10.12.html
