Haruki Murakami on Cormac McCarthy

Haruki Murakami in a 2011 New York Times article made both positive and negative comments on Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." In this video, we will discuss McCarthy's dabble in "boring speculative fiction," "The Road" VS "IQ84" and other points Murakami brings up!
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[@youngbaseddolphin]

i would love if u continued making more murakami and dfw videos in the future

[@WriteConscious]

thousands brotha. I'm about to exucute a literary takeover

[@hpbecraft]

1Q84's taxi ride is probably the best writing ever written.

[@WriteConscious]

Yeah!

[@TF-iz4my]

Legitimately? I’m trying to decide which murakami to read after children of dune. I’ve only read Kafka on the shore.

[@24hourcoffee]

​@TF-iz4my Sputnik Sweetheart if you want something brief, Wind Up Bird Chronicle if you want to read a masterpiece

[@Theomite]

James Wood called McCarthy's work "high genre" in The New Yorker 2 years ago and I think that's how he can write _The Road_ which is a series of threadbare vignettes of regurgitated post-apocalyptic tropes and weave it into art: he writes them as literature in the way of the finest 20th Century journeyman writers like Bradbury, Ellison, Gaiman, etc--by approaching detail elliptically (what Wood calls "deflatus") rather than through verisimilitude. It abstracts the narrative into semi-verbal impressions that convey power through the negative textual space rather than tangible prose.

[@WriteConscious]

Yes!

[@andergrindstudios7546]

Question: Pilot G-2 1.0 or Pilot G-2 0.7 ?

[@WriteConscious]

Pilot disposable fountain pens

[@hamzasaid3368]

Have you thought about making videos about D.F.W's annotations of Blood Meridian? Ive seen a couple of pictures on Twitter, but maybe they're not available to the public

[@WriteConscious]

I've been to the DFW archive and you can't look at it. You can see the first page but its in a display.

[@CINEMARTYR]

Regardless of if I agree with his point or not, I sure do love it when, in a piece of art “it’s always raining all the time and people are unhappy” 😂

[@WriteConscious]

Lol

[@jbri1]

How did you manage to plug your t-shirts, a course, and your Instagram in such a short video? Hemingway would've been proud.

[@adampearson1541]

What do you think of William Gass?

[@WriteConscious]

Loved Omensetter's Luck. Got turned onto that from Wallace's copy at his archive actually

[@TF-iz4my]

Your channel rules. I started your stuff on rumble.

[@WriteConscious]

Thanks, good to hear some people are coming over from Odysee, Rumble, and the other sites I'm on!

[@TheHundredHeads]

Ahh ‘syntropy’. You’ve found a crazy tunnel here and opened up a whole new underground. I’ve never considered the various antonyms to entropy. You’ve used the concept in a brilliant way though, symbiotic relationship with history. Syntropy. Negentropy is just the reverse of entropy-expansion. Plenty of synonyms for that. Also doesn’t sound very good…negentropy.

[@WriteConscious]

Haha, yes! The science bros only want to focus on destruction. They're rejecting Hiram Abiff

[@QuietExplorations]

You should get some videos out about David Mitchell.

[@WriteConscious]

Will do! I have a review of Utopia Avenue up and a video of me ranking all his novels already though!

[@hdood]

Hey, in the description of your video you have a link to your substack. I think you have a letter misplaced in the link, just an FYI. Keep up the great content!

[@WriteConscious]

Oh shit! Thanks!

[@zoobee]

The British writer Hanif Kureishi suffered an accident last year which left him paralysed. He cannot walk and he cannot use his hands to write. He's been chronicling his recovery since then in articles and substack. He writes by dictating to his sons. Kureishi is a really interesting, significant modern British writer. He's currently writing a memoir about his life since the accident. When Cormac McCarthy died, Kureishi mentioned him in his substack. I quote it here: "On another note, years ago I read half a book by Cormac McCarthy but had to put it down. I don’t read a lot of fiction. I watch movies, but I don’t much like reading or writing made up stories now. I don’t know why. I read a lot of newspapers, including the shitty ones, and I admire and respect journalists, particularly sports writers, whom I read avidly. It must be difficult for journalists, all that sticking to the truth and trying to make it interesting; all that chasing after facts, looking things up. As for the Cormac McCarthy, the title of which I forget, it was so good I could hardly bear it. I wanted so much to write as well as that. I couldn’t read any more of it.

[@WriteConscious]

Thanks for this!

[@reaganwiles_art]

I read The Windup Bird Chronicle and wasn't moved by it. If that book is representative of Murakami I don't care to read any more of his books. I'm reading Dagon by Fred Chappell (rip) now. I wonder if Mccarthy read this book? It won best foreign novel by the French Academy back in the sixties when it dropped. I think Chappell was 24 when he wrote it. Dagon is "Southern Gothic horror" if you can dig it. A young preacher writing a treatise on sin and hisardent, intelligent wife move into his inheritaded farmhouse on a 400 acre farm, complete with fat, greasy bootlegger named Morgan and his antediluvian family of trogs. It's intense, terrible and sickening.

[@WriteConscious]

Sounds crazy!

[@debayandasgupta488]

You like Rushdie?

[@tenthletter2678]

Come on....he's got SOME taste....

[@WriteConscious]

I think he is alright. I taught some of his novels at an old school I worked at because there was slim pickings lol. I do have a video on how he writes on my channel though!

[@maggyfrog]

i'm sorry, did you just say MYU-rakami? 😐

[@WriteConscious]

Maggie, I think you're hearing things again..

[@maggyfrog]

@@WriteConscious bro, it's not hard to say murakami

[@setsunakiryu5496]

I read 7 books by Murakami and for me it is an insult to literature to call him a goat. Even his readers know that he is a mediocre writer who writes the same thing in every book with that same main character

[@WriteConscious]

Meh.. If there is a hall of fame for modern writers he is in it.

[@setsunakiryu5496]

@WriteConscious yeah, let's see if his name survives over time as a really great one