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A review by santoshsali
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami
4.0
A quick weekend read.
About 188 pg. The book is titled "Running" and features Murakami's small photo of running.
He is talking about the running.
How he started running as a need. Then how it grew on him, his variety of explorations of various Marathons, and his encounters with other runners and graduating to the Triathlon. On the last page of the book, he reflects on what it means as a runner. And why it should be written on his gravestone.
He briefly keeps talking about its relevance to him as a novelist and as an author.
I feel the hidden message is not about running which is visible, and tangible. It's about what goes on inside the long runner. His struggles, the way others look at him, and his completing the milestones of the Marathon and then the Triathlon.
His occupation as a writer is the same. What is visible, and tangible is the book. The artifact. The praise is written. What is hidden is the work of a novelist and its solitary struggles. And how one is taking up a marathon one after another, he is also taking up writing projects one after another.
It's not about running, it's not about writing. It's about the kind of person one is becoming in the process. The goals that one sets for oneself, reaching them, and then one writes on the gravestone - he was running and not walking!
Insightful musing of a writer.
If you are a writer aspiring to write, You shall read this.
About 188 pg. The book is titled "Running" and features Murakami's small photo of running.
He is talking about the running.
How he started running as a need. Then how it grew on him, his variety of explorations of various Marathons, and his encounters with other runners and graduating to the Triathlon. On the last page of the book, he reflects on what it means as a runner. And why it should be written on his gravestone.
He briefly keeps talking about its relevance to him as a novelist and as an author.
I feel the hidden message is not about running which is visible, and tangible. It's about what goes on inside the long runner. His struggles, the way others look at him, and his completing the milestones of the Marathon and then the Triathlon.
His occupation as a writer is the same. What is visible, and tangible is the book. The artifact. The praise is written. What is hidden is the work of a novelist and its solitary struggles. And how one is taking up a marathon one after another, he is also taking up writing projects one after another.
It's not about running, it's not about writing. It's about the kind of person one is becoming in the process. The goals that one sets for oneself, reaching them, and then one writes on the gravestone - he was running and not walking!
Insightful musing of a writer.
If you are a writer aspiring to write, You shall read this.