風の歌を聴け | Hear the Wind Sing

Title: 風の歌を聴け
Authors: 村上　春樹 著
Pages: 201P
Published At: January, 1979
Description:
Gunzo New Writer Literary Award Winner. Summer of 1970—the wind of that day passed through, languid and bittersweet. Our dreams would never return. A brilliant debut that captures fragments of youthful life with a dry, urbane sensibility! This newcomer's work is a recent literary harvest. In Japanese literature about young people, works depicting "the world around age twenty (or seventeen)" have been written repeatedly, but compared to such works, this stands out distinctly. Beneath the dry, brisk tone lies an inward-gazing eye, and the protagonist quickly turns such perception outward, adopting a nonchalant attitude. The skill in conveying this without affectation is sophisticated. Yet it is not mere technique alone—the author's grounded humanity also seems to infuse the work. That is what I value. —Junnosuke Yoshiyuki

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