A Sociologist Takes on © MURAKAMI
This interview conducted by Jessica Chong with UCLA sociologist Adrian Favell turned up in the PoNJA-GenKon listserv, and I thought it was worth passing along. If you’re interested in Japanese Art, I cannot recommend enough joining the listserv. Favell traveled to Japan as part of the Social Science Research Council’s Abe Fellowship Program and this article is probably the most interesting thing I’ve read on Murakami in a long while. He does a great job at contrasting Murakami with his japanese peers, placing him in both Japanese and international culture and seeing the big picture that Murakami’s work exists within.
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