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Original Title:	限りなく透明に近いブルー [Kagirinaku Tōmei ni Chikai Burū] ISBN13 9784770029041
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞 (1976)

Almost Transparent Blue Paperback | Pages: 126 pages

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Title	:	Almost Transparent Blue
Author	:	Ryū Murakami
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 126 pages
Published	:	April 11th 2003 by Kodansha (first published July 9th 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature

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Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in passivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures. Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty. Ryu Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue won the coveted Akutagawa literary prize and became an instant bestseller. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan.

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I'm sure we all go through these moments in life, where we end up in a dark pit of frustration and fear, wondering where we should be or go, what we should do, why we are here. We, whether religious or atheist, have our moments where we feel as if life is without meaning, that we are simply an overly self conscious mammal that walks, talks, breathes and finally dies without feeling like we have accomplished much in our short lives. These moments are brief, yet during these precise moments, they

As soon as I had read the first page, I knew that I had read Almost Transparent Blue at least once many years ago. Even though the weighty & lengthy TBR shelf chides me, I read it through on a long train ride. And I am glad I did. I know like and appreciate this more more than I did before.This is Murakami-sans first novel written in his youth about even younger youths. Is it autobiographical? I dont know and dont recall anyone ever saying so definitively. The main character shares his

(Soundtrack for this review) Do you want to know what I don't give a shit about? This book. I made it a little more than a quarter through it (35 pages to be exact). I found the writing to be blah (to be fair, I think it is the translation), the type to be a bit too small and the font to be faintly illegible. I dreaded having to go on break and read more of this book, and did internal backflips when I noticed the a new Harpers just went on sale before I went on break and saw there was a new DFW

A bleak portrayal of a defeated country's youth culture that both consumes American (counter-) culture and is consumed by it. In defiance against the established order of madness that led Japan to a Pyrrhic defeat at the hands of the Allies, the youth here are afloat in their own existence against their cultural inheritance, but with no substantive alternativesuicide here is merely gestural and holds none of the symbolic or existential weight that it is given by the likes of

"I put the thin fragment of glass, dripping blood, in my pocket, and ran out into the misty road. The doors and windows of the houses were shut, nothing was moving. I thought I'd been swallowed by a huge living thing, that I was turning around and around in its stomach like the hero of some fairy tale." Almost Transparent BlueA warning to any potential readers of this book. There is explicit, graphic sex in the first half of this novel. If you are prudish about group sex, alternative sex, or

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It will take a bit of digestion to form a coherent response to this book. The first half was a drag. Violent sex and drug use depicted with skilled, lovely prose, a special focus on body fluids. The only factors that kept me reading were the shortness of the book and the author's skill, because these first sixty pages were deathly boring.In the second half, something like a story of a dark personal transformation begins to emerge. Free of the blizzard of pills and orgies, the writing focuses on