Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The Years of Pilgrimage of the colorless Mr. Tazaki (Japanese色彩 を 持た ない 多 崎 つくる と,彼 の 巡礼 の 年, Shikisai o Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to Kare no Junrei no Toshi ) is a novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. On April 12, 2013, three years after the publication of the predecessor 1Q84, the novel was published in Japan and appeared in the following year in Germany in a translation by Ursula Grafe.

The book sold on the release date more than 100,000 times and had a first edition of 600,000 copies, which was increased several times and released after a week of one million copies, respectively.

Content

The 36 -year-old Tsukuru Tazaki searches on the advice of his friend Sarah in his old friends from high school, to find out why they had cast him out of the circle of friends 16 years ago. The loss of their friendship had put him as 20 -year-old in a deep life crisis and in great loneliness that continues today. He visited in succession his former friends in Nagoya and Finland, and slowly comes to the truth on the track.

Persons acting in concert

  • Tsukuru Tazaki is the 36 -year-old protagonist. He has a penchant for stations since childhood and works in a railway company in Tokyo.
  • Akamatsu lives in Nagoya Kei and leads a company that provides the training for employees.
  • Yoshio Oumi lives in Nagoya and car dealers.
  • Yuzuki Shirane a defunct piano teacher.
  • Eri Kurono Haatainen, a potter, who married a Finn, who came to Japan to learn pottery. Later, the couple moved to Finland.
  • Sara Kimoto, Tazakis girlfriend, two years older than he. She works in a travel agency in Tokyo.
  • Haida, disappeared from the university before the new semester started.

Topics

How often in novels Murakami's music plays a big role, Piano Music of Franz Liszt - Années de pèlerinage ( Years of Pilgrimage ). In the first volume " Première année: Suisse " (First Year: Switzerland) Chapter 8, the play " Le Mal du Pays " ( " homesickness ") is a recurring motif.

Reception

The book polarizes the literary criticism in the German newspapers. The critics of the TAZ is of the opinion that it was a typical Murakami novel, which he " ' literature of the lowest common denominator ": Star Wars sayings go through here as a Zen wisdom for global connectivity ensures an intercultural mix of sushi, Liszt and Finnish design. " accused, while the critic was impressed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung of the " emotional power " of the novel. Sebastian Hammelehle from the mirror is fascinated by the " narrative and aesthetic clarity of the condensate condensed story of self-discovery ." The book shows that Murakami is unrivaled worldwide, and the novel was " the compressed proof of his art." For Karl -Markus Gauss from the NZZ however, it is difficult to understand, " that this interwoven with philosophical platitudes novel leads not only all the bestseller lists, but also all over the country was celebrated by critics ... " However, he had a talent readers could wherever they hit the " years of Pilgrimage " to help out with a sentence they write in the autograph album of kin adolescents

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