![]() ![]() ![]() Actually, there are some tenacious criticisms against Murakami, such as Masao Miyoshi's harsh judgment of his compromise to commercialism (Off Center 234-36). ![]() Nevertheless, Nakagami has enthusiastic admirers, especially among literary critics, most of whom turn the cold shoulder to Haruki Murakami. ![]() Sadly, Nakagami died of kidney cancer at the age of 46 in 1992, and only some of his texts are translated into English, French, German and Italian. Nakagami announced William Faulkner's great influence on his literary imagination just as Kenzaburo Oe did. 1 Kenji Nakagami, born three years earlier than Murakami in 1946, was recognized early in his career as one of the literary masters of postwar Japan, and was expected to succeed Kenzaburo Oe, the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Many of Murakami's texts are translated into English, German, Chinese, Russian, Italian, and other languages. Haruki Murakami, born in 1949, might now be the most popular Japanese writer, both in Japan and abroad. Haruki Murakami and Kenji Nakagami, two contemporary Japanese writers, show the contrastive characteristics of the postmodern novelists in Japan today: Haruki Murakami's novels are self-reflexive and consciously imitative, and often surrealistic, while Kenji Nakagami's novels are generally marked for the postcolonialist concerns on patriarchy, discrimination, and corporeality. Submitted by Takako Tanaka, Nagoya City University, Japan. ![]()
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