My Wind-up Bird: a visual reckoning with Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Lehman, John
2020
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My Wind-Up Bird gives visual form to the space that
both literary scholarship and imaginative reading occupy. As I read and re-read my
English copy of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, I translate my experience
into drawings, paintings, and a variety of print media on the pages of the book itself,
at once celebrating the power of the author’s words and questioning what is
missing. ... read moreThis marginalia-turned-art not only hearkens back to the content of illuminated
manuscripts but also facilitates vigorous dialogue between myself, the text, and the
author. It interrogates and comments on questions of authorship and cultural
transmission. It demonstrates adoration for the author even as it amends the text. It is
a venue where detailed reflections on story threads and intertextual analyses can meet a
fan's intense desire to participate in the production of literary experience. Most
importantly, My Wind-Up Bird reveals that reading need not be a solitary or passive
endeavor; reading critically and creatively is a social act whose generative potential
to make new art and new literatures ought to be
shared.
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