University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers Graduate School 2020 Dark-Night and Nameless:Globalization in Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Thomas Velazquez Herring Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd Part of the Cultural History Commons, Japanese Studies Commons, Modern Literature Commons, and the Social History Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Herring, Thomas Velazquez, "Dark-Night and Nameless:Globalization in Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" (2020). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 11657. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11657 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Dark-Night And Nameless: Globalization in Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle By Tom Herring For the last thirty odd years, Haruki Murakami has been a towering figure on the international literary scene. He has to his name: fourteen novels translated into English, four collections of short stories (and a good handful of short stories which have not been anthologized), and over forty works of nonfiction, including translations of works into Japanese. His first two novels, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, which he wrote basically because he thought he could, are stylistically realist and best characterized by weltschmerz, which in English means angsty world-weariness, a la J.D.