![]() 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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