![]() ![]() ![]() As long as we’ve been properly grounded by a careful set of instructions, we readers will have visions. ![]() In Langston Hughes’s neglected “ On the Road,” a homeless Black man who is denied help by a white pastor grabs the stone pillars of a church and pulls it down - and we accept it. The freezing man in Kafka’s “ Bucket Rider” floats above icy streets in a bucket, asks a couple for coal and then flies away when he is refused. That’s the thought that occurred to me often as I read “First Person Singular,” the brilliant new book of stories by Haruki Murakami, author of international best sellers. FIRST PERSON SINGULAR Stories By Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel MagicĪll fiction is magic. ![]()
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