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A Companion to Crime Fiction describes Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World as a 'metaphysical detective story', comparing it with Kobo Abe's Inter Ice Age 4 and Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick, 'linking apocalyptic science fiction and metaphysical detective/mystery stories through antiphonal narratives, alternating "science" and ...
The name Cold Fairyland comes from a Chinese translation of one of Haruki Murakami's books (known in English as "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World") favored by Lin Di. The name reflects sometimes dark tones of their music.
In 1985, Murakami wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, a dream-like fantasy that took the magical elements of his work to a new extreme. Murakami achieved a major breakthrough and national recognition in 1987 with the publication of Norwegian Wood , a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality.
1985 Haruki Murakami for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando, 世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド) 1986 Hino Keizo for Sakyu ga ugoku yō ni (砂丘が動くように) 1987 Tsutsui Yasutaka for Yumenokizaka bunkiten (夢の木坂分岐点) 1988 (no prize awarded)
From its earliest days, hardboiled fiction was published in and closely associated with so-called pulp magazines.Pulp historian Robert Sampson argues that Gordon Young's "Don Everhard" stories (which appeared in Adventure magazine from 1917 onwards), about an "extremely tough, unsentimental, and lethal" gun-toting urban gambler, anticipated the hardboiled detective stories. [7]
A Companion to Crime Fiction describes Inter Ice Age 4 as a 'metaphysical detective story', comparing it with Andrew Crumey's Mobius Dick and Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, 'linking apocalyptic science fiction and metaphysical detective/mystery stories through antiphonal narratives, alternating "science" and ...
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Murakami started writing the book in January 2020 while spending all time in his home during the covid-19 pandemic, and completed it in December 2022. [4] Initially his intention was to rewrite his 1980 short story with the same title to improve it, but the story got expanded to the 672 page novel, with the material from the short story forming its first chapter.