Jay Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Harvard University

Recorded on April 12, 2018

"Murakami Haruki's Japanese has a distinctly American ""stink,"" but even Englishinfluenced literary style such as his presents the translator with challenges that point to the ancient roots of the Japanese language.

Jay Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Harvard University.

Translator of Murakami Haruki, Natsume Sōseki, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, etc. Author of Injurious to Public Morals, Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, The Sun Gods, and Murakami Haruki to watashi. Editor of The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018).