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Ryu Murakami

Sixty-Nine

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In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at high speed and with irresistible humour by Kensuke himself, this is the story of their 1969, as they engage in heated conversations about Marxism, Rimbaud, Godard, the Beatles and the Stones, set up a barricade in their school, organise a rock festival and map out a highly successful strategy in girl-winning. This is a young Japan entirely turned towards the West, pervaded by Western music, where the girls have nicknames pulled from famous British films, but still locked in a fight with the rigid post-war conservatism of the older generation.
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169 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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    we walked around toward the back, I found myself thinking about the power of culture.
    “Hey, Adama, culture’s sort of an awesome thing, don’t you think?”
    “Why?”
    “Look at Iwase. If all this foreign culture had never come to Japan, he’d be a plain old button seller all his life—he wouldn’t know about Led Zep or Verlaine or tomato juice or anything. It’s sort of scary, isn’t it?”
    “Well, hell, you could say the same about me and you. You’re ju
  • Tetiana Donskahas quoted6 years ago
    Complete Sartre; Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past; Joyce’s Ulysses; the World Classics and Masterpieces of Oriental Literature series published by Chuko Books; Kawade’s The World’s Great Thinkers and Sacred Texts of the World; the Kama Sutra; Das Kapital; War and Peace; The Divine Comedy; The Sickness unto Death; The Collected Works of John Maynard Keynes; The Complete Lukács; The Complete Tanizaki… I knew the titles of all these books by heart. But the works I really loved and actually read and underlined in red ink were the great comic-book serials “Joe Tomorrow,” “The Way of the Dragon,” “Muyonosuke the Ronin,” and “The Genius Bakabon.”

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