Almost Transparent Blue
by Ryū Murakami
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Almost Transparent Blue (限りなく透明に近いブルー Kagirinaku Tōmei ni Chikai Burū, "Almost Infinitely Transparent Blue") is a 1976 novel, written by Japanese author Ryū Murakami, that features a portrait of narrator Ryū and his friends trapped in a cycle of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll during the 1970s.
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…garden appeared to me merely flicking tongues of flame... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Dazai * Murakami Ryu. Not to be confused with his namesake, Ryu's writing is very opposite of whimsical and "Almost Transparent Blue" is shockingly brutal. This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity,…
on “Japanese Writing After Murakami” ↗I'm generally reading 3-4 books at a time. Right now that's: * That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart * Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami * The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cormwell * The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry (rereading after his recent passing)
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