A review by rzarate9696
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

I love his simplicity and candor. He reflects on things the way I imagine a well-spoken man of another era would. But that comes of course with his simplistic depiction of women as objects of desire to be admired, fawned over, and fondled like mannequins in an abandoned department store. He's not very open to the criticism he's received in general on his writing, including accusations of sexism, preferring to let his work speak for itself. I haven't read any of his fiction yet, but it was funny to see for myself that even in his nonfiction it's so clearly apparent that he's viewed women with the same set of non self-critical lenses for decades. He's enjoyable to read, yes, but it's good to be critical of these things and consider them while reading his work.