On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:14 PM Ashwin Nanjappa <ashwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The English translation of Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicle is by Jay > Rubin. To my surprise I discovered later that entire chapters in the > Japanese original do not appear in Rubin's work! I'm guessing this > translation is "blessed" by Murakami, which makes the situation all > the more puzzling. > Murakami is fluent in English. If he thinks Rubin's translation was in the spirit of the original, I'd trust his (Murakami's) judgement. Thaths