Murakami and the Egg

Last month Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami travelled to Israel to accept the Jerusalem Prize. A lot of people told him not to go. But he went and he spoke. He spoke elegantly about writing fiction and about simple, beautiful humanity. "Each of us, he said, is, more or less, an egg...a unique, irreplaceable soul enclosed in a fragile shell...And each of us...is confronting a high, solid wall...The System." In his writing he seeks to reveal that soul while at the same time keeping The System in a critical spotlight. In going to Jerusalem he did just that.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1064909.html

Published by Elizabeth Saccente on Thursday, Mar 5 2009.

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