| DATE: | Sunday, October 12, 2008 |
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| TIME: | 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM |
| PLACE: | Alumni House |
| FORMAT: | Symposium |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Japanese Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Townsend Center for the Humanities |
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)Free and Open to the Public
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There will also be MURAKAMI BOOK SIGNING at Book Inc. in San Francisco (601 Van Ness) at 3pm, Oct. 12, 2008
