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The subject of my work is the role of the contemporary Japanese writer Murakami Haruki as a cultural mediator between Japan and the United States.
Murakami is probably the most translated among contemporary Japanese writers; at the same time, he has been very active in introducing American litera-ture to Japan,
having translated writers such as F. Scott Fitz-gerald, John Irving, and J. D. Salinger.
Although many critics both in the West and in Japan have discussed Murakami’s works, very few have analyzed his role as a literary and cultural mediator between Japan and the United States.
My work proposes to fill this gap, in the conviction that studying the works of Murakami Haruki from a comparative perspective can provide a better understanding not only of the author and his works,
but also of the status of contemporary Japanese literature within the context of world literature.
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